This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. – Thomas Carlyle
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. – Thomas Carlyle
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. – Thomas Carlyle
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it – mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction – I dont know if I want to do that anymore. – Seth Grahame-Smith