To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other peoples writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other peoples fiction. Just dont. – Laurell K. Hamilton
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other peoples hope. – Christopher Hitchens