Dan Johnson > Dan's Quotes

“That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.”
― P.C. Hodgell, Seeker's Mask

“TO SOME PEOPLE, Hallowe’en was about the mysteries of the netherworld, about the “veil” between the living and the dead. To me, it was just about the candy, and the kids.”
― LE Jamez, In Creeps the Night

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“The world is filled with unmarried marriage counselors.”
― Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, 1973-1974

“That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
― André Gide

“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”
― Charles Baudelaire, BAUDELAIRE - the Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring