Mike Fowler > Mike's Quotes

“Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop.”
― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

“Truth is one, and the true path is one. And that truth is two times two and that true path is four.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus! —
Why look'st thou so?' — With my cross-bow
I shot the Albatross.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“A snowflake would land on the pane, glance at the woman, and melt...”
― Anton Chekhov, Fifty-Two Stories

“All our work had been very little, no great change had been made. And it was all my fault. I’d been so fascinated by the motion that I’d forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I’d been asleep, dreaming.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway? - diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you'll have no tyrant states.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“So read the books they're banning, that's where the good stuff is! If they don't want you to read it, there's a reason why.”
― LeVar Burton