"His type of insane mastery is his alone, in his head. Not translateable."
- YT comment on a video of someone making MPW's steak dinner

"I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or time looks simple when you leave out the deatils, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit."
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Solitude

"Thinking is one way of doing, and words are one way of thinking."
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Solitude

"What would that world be, a world without war? It would the real world. Peace was the true life, the life of working and learning and bringing up children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and children, was the denial of reality."
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Betrayals

"Here's to our lives being meaningless
and how beautiful it is
because Freedom doesn't have a purpose."
- Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains, Harmony Parking Lot Song