"After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you will never learn anything about the fire: by the time the ashes can be handled the meaning has passed on. Every adventure is a cup so empty it can be drunk from again and again and again. Every adventure is so perfect it verges on silence."

--

M. John Harrison

#Adventure Quotes #Fire Quotes #Drunk Quotes

“People seldom recognize opportunity for it comes disguised as hard work.”
“I'm like, "You could not wake up in the sixes? Does it really gotta be in the fives?" Because the 5 really feels like nighttime. I don't like the day starting at 5.”
“It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.”
“Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land.”
“In America, we met this guy who'd been in the army. He'd been over in the Iraq war. He said that our CD helped him get through a hard time in the Iraq war. It's amazing to know that we helped him in some way. It's definitely cool.”
“All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.”
“Sometimes we just need a space that gives us permission to be the best, most full version of our artistic selves, and we flourish.”
“I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.”

Source : "A funny five minutes with Jenny Eclair". Interview with Mirror.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

You may also like:

Alastair Reynolds
Author
China Mieville
Author
Elizabeth Hand
Writer
Gene Wolfe
Writer
Iain Banks
Author
Jack Vance
Writer
Michael Moorcock
Writer
Peter Straub
Author
Poul Anderson
Author