James Rozoff

"If you want a language to survive, capture great thoughts within it. William Shakespeare has ensured Elizabethan English will never perish from this world."

"There is no unstoppable force but time, no impenetrable object except that which separates us from the past."

"I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about."

"Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal."

"He who dies with the most toys...dies a child."

"Life is like a box of chocolates: You get through what little actual good stuff there is right away, then you constantly fool yourself into believing there's still something good in whatever's left."

"Never in mankind’s history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought."

"Feminism is not inherently bourgeois, but bourgeois feminism is the only one given voice in our society. That is why women’s issues discuss glass ceilings rather than dirt floors."

"I write pre-apocalyptic fiction. In other words, I’m not interested in a future where everything is blown to hell, I’d rather write something that helps to prevent it from happening."

"Once you realize that life and love are not things you can possess but forces that emanate through us and through all creation, then you can begin to appreciate the miracle you are a part of. You can release the burden and appreciate what you have had, have now and will have. Only trying to hold on to what you do not have causes pain. Letting go permits you to experience the incredible joy that comes to you at each and every moment."

"Those who rule have always had an interest in shaping the perceptions of those they wish to rule. But never in the history of humanity has their toolbox been so full. Advances in technology and psychology have enabled the messages of the rulers to permeate our consciousness to a degree no prior society could have imagined."

"Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I’d be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube."

"The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace."

"They are always the problem. There is no evil in this world you cannot blame on them. The world will never be right as long as they exist. Whereas we are right, we are always right. We desire to make the world a better place whereas they either consciously desire to make it worse or else are willing to make it so through wrong ideas. There is only one way to make the world we are trying to create, and that is to get rid of them, get rid of every last one of them. And the only way to do that is to stop creating them. Because there is no “they” until we choose to see someone as such. When we choose to see the humanity in everyone, then there is no more they, there is only us."

"Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others’ butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those they’ve known for a lifetime."

"Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses."

"Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment."

"Art is the medium through which new thoughts, perspectives, and attitudes are brought into the world."

"A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country."

"My problem as a writer is that—whenever I meet someone for the first time—I immediately invent for them a personality and background that are invariably more interesting than the ones they possess. And confirming this character to be uninteresting after a few minutes of conversation, I decide that they are unnecessary to my story and begin devising ways to kill them off."