pure science with a splash of black cat

This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I shall not put. Winston Churchill in a note to the editor regarding one of his manuscripts, after the editor awkwardly reworded one of Churchill’s sentences to avoid ending it in a preposition.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal

I'm glad Tumblr developed the unsaved-post-rescuing feature.

Firefox crashed on me twice after I finished that post I just made, both times while I was tagging it, and I would have choked a bitch if I’d had to type that all over again. The only thing I have any motivation to write about these days is music, and the quickest way to kill that motivation is to make me try to recreate what I thought was a halfway decent piece of writing in the first place.

Grrrr.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can’t help it. Leo Rosten

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated. Jorge Luis Borges

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself. Harlan Ellison

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra