"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations ... See MoreSee Less

"Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark."
- Stefan Zweig ... See MoreSee Less

"The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine."
- Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles ... See MoreSee Less

“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road ... See MoreSee Less

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso ... See MoreSee Less

"When for a moment I raised my head to take breath and throw the hair and water from my eyes, the steam was rising in a whirling white fog that at first hid the Martians altogether."
- The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells ... See MoreSee Less

“Future became Present, Present became Past. A truth so banal, so obvious and accepted that he had somehow managed to ignore it before.”
― Iain Banks, The Bridge ... See MoreSee Less

“There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander ... See MoreSee Less

"From the railway station in the distance came the sound of shunting trains, ringing and rumbling, softened almost into melody by the distance."
- The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells ... See MoreSee Less

"We stumbled slowly along in the darkness, with the black loom of the craggy hills around us, and the yellow speck of light burning steadily in front."
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle ... See MoreSee Less

"He was surrounded on all sides by chasms of empty air."
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding ... See MoreSee Less

Live from mile 5 of the Moonwalk. Gorgeous night in town for a long walk! ... See MoreSee Less

"A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar."
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad ... See MoreSee Less

"They stood out in his mind disconnectedly, like pictures with blackness all round them."
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell ... See MoreSee Less

"A thick fog rolled down between the lines of dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths."
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle ... See MoreSee Less