Simon Kulick

“Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Labels

“who come out limp often have the most trouble. But the ones who come out all pissed off and full of noise,
they’re the fighters. They’re the ones who thrive.”
― Randy Pausch

“The girls had run away, but the bear called to them: 'Snow-white and Rose-red, do not be afraid; wait, I will come with you.' Then they recognized his voice and waited, and when he came up to them suddenly his bearskin fell off, and”
― Jacob Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales

“Look around you. Apartheid is being dismantled and Nelson Mandela walks the streets of South Africa. Until a few years ago, I could not imagine that happening. Russia is a new place, so is China. The communist bogeyman I was threatened with throughout my childhood is gone. The world is no less dangerous, and people are still dying for their origins, beliefs, color, and sexuality, but I find myself full of startled awe and hope. The rigid world into which I was born has been shaken profoundly.”
― Dorothy Allison, Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature