John

“Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.”
― Erol Ozan

“The thing to remember when traveling is that the trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you will miss all that you are traveling for.” -Louis L’ Amour”
― Robert Rodriguez Jr, Insights From Beyond the Lens: Inside the Art & Craft of Landscape Photography

“The icon receded, and the word “PASSWORD” came up front, bold and center, with a blinking space to fill. Jayce reached again for his ear, but caught himself. He moved his fingers, entering “p.a.s.s.w.o.r.d.” into the space. “ACCESS DENIED,” it read. Hmmm.”
― Josh Barkey, Jayce

“There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory.

- from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange