Ralph

“Stories like Yu’s shocked Yang. ‘I did not foresee this level of cruelty,’ he said. ‘There was cannibalism in ancient times in famines. People used to talk about “exchanging children to eat”, because they could not bear to eat their own children. But this was much worse.’ Even the final nationwide death toll, a figure which has been known in the west for more than two decades, was a revelation.”
― Richard McGregor, The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

“I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

“I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an 80 percent proficiency level. To go beyond that requires an obsession that doesn't appeal to me. Once I reach 80 percent level I like to go off and do something totally different; that probably explains the diversity of the Patagonia product like - and why our versatile, multifaceted clothes are the most successful.”
― Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction