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Mia Wallace: "Pretty smart."
Vincent Vega: "Yeah, I got my moments."

(Pulp Fiction)

Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to become comfortable?
-- Mia (Pulp Fiction)

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction after all has to make sense, right?

"Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go home and have a heart attack"
-- Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction)

Fanfiction is just fixing things in post-post-production

"Conviction is a luxury for those on the sidelines."

Subduction leads to orogeny!

Science fiction is an existential metaphor that allows us to tell stories about the human condition. Isaac Asimov once said, "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinded critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all."
(Stargate SG-1)

Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
-- Kelvin Throop III

"The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."
-- Mark Twain

Headline: Never Withhold Herpes Infection from Loved One

I'm not a perfectionist. That would be a character flaw.

Clique: A group of insiders who greet outsiders with their backsides; a closed circle of asses.
(Cynic's Dictionary)

Sniglet, n: Any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary, but should.
-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")

I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.
-- Flannery O'Connor

Math Anxiety: An intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 mph.
(Cynic's Dictionary)

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
-- Nadine Gordimer ("Selecting my Stories")

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Language and its absurd conjunctions;
Constellations and crustaceans rhyme.

War, n: A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.
-- Chaz Bufe (The Devil's Dictionaries ("American Heretic's Dictionary" section))

Quality Of Life: What an industrialized nation is said to offer when enough of its citizens are suffering from terminal stress.
(Cynic's Dictionary)

I've decided, I'm going to feed every little addiction and silently go mad 'cause right now my writing sucks.
-- Zaffel

The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.

For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.

On an American Airlines package of nuts: Instructions: Open package, eat nuts.

Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
-- Ambrose Bierce ("The Devil's Dictionary")

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
-- Goethe

If the pen is mightier than the sword then how can actions speak louder than words?

Peace, n: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
-- Ambrose Bierce ("The Devil's Dictionary")

X-Chromosome: A genetic double-cross that empowers women with the ability to bear children and reserves for men the right to be color-blind hemophiliacs.
(Cynic's Dictionary)

"There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
-- Victor Hugo

"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists -- that is why they invented hell."
-- Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.
-- Anais Nin

Law of Cat Motion:
A cat will move in a straight line, unless there is a really good reason to change direction.