Mark Masters

“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“how far was a feeling genuine if it did not find expression in an external act?”
― Brian W. Aldiss, Cryptozoic!

“When he woke, she was gone. He lay for a long while looking up at the tent roof, wondering how much he cared. He needed company, although he was never wholly comfortable with it; he needed a woman, although he was never wholly happy with one. He wanted to talk, although he knew most talk was an admission of non-communication.”
― Brian W. Aldiss, Cryptozoic!