Michael

“The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles. Oh, they have no thought to spare for such details, their minds are concentrated on their grand invention as a whole, and fancy any one daring to pull them up for a trifle! But that's how they are caught.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
― Tchaikovsky

“To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing”
― Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer