L.B. Scott Quotes

Once spun, The silken thread of all our aspirationsRemains intact, It can never be broken.

Nothing that truly mattersCan ever evaporate, Be excised, Burnt out of your soul.

Be as audaciousAs you wish.By all means look to the heavens.

In this life at least, Our fate is rarely epic.Maybe just as well, Impervious heroes we are not…

A permanent pathThat, once illuminated, Goes ever onward – a way home…

How stubborn life is, It clings like silver in our souls.

The sea, the sea…Man alone, Passive, unawareIn his elemental sadness.

Reject the fearmongering. Adopt best practices. Slow down.

Opinions are like ugly children … despite it all you love your own.

But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood, " she said. "make me pretty.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering.

My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.

I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.

Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.

A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization... One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

Thank you Bjork Peterson for a wonderful review of my new book "Why We Love Serial Killers" @readingghost

You must have something in order to give it up.

It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets.

We find what's in our own heads.

That was the trick - to keep punching, no matter what.

the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and one will ever save you.

As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what "just living" might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

The only doors that open are the ones you knock on.

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.

Amazing what more we can see looking back. But God didn't give us eyes in the back of our heads. Our eyes, like our feet, face forward, toward the future.

Electronic consciousness and the transhuman revolution renders infinite possibilities for the future as man merges with machines. This is an exhilarating time to be alive!

We all have choices. What are you choosing to believe about yourself, and about your life Believing you don't have a choice is a choice.

The universe is math on fire.

Where once there was a void, Now at least there are Seeds of splendour, Becalmed belief for another time.

You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

This is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

Grab your pen! Grab your sword! Eviscerate small minds with pinpoint force of mental might. Victory is in horizon's sight!

The rain fell like dead bullets.

You create your own reality

...[T]here are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating.

You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.

I am the living dead girl because I am too weak to die. I hate those crying dough women on TV because they are just like me, weak and broken and clinging to the hands that hold us under.

That was the river, this is the sea.

From you I can learn things that nobody knows.

I've learned all I'm ever going to learn from you.

A person's integrity develops early in life. Once formed, it is difficult to alter, change, or improve.

You take a step, then another. That’s the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it’s a remaking of your own mind.

we have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they’re workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we’re on the right track.

The way is not clear, and it is when you do not have clarity, when this is allowed, that you will finally have clarity.

You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.

You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.

Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?

Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined, ” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.