...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.
Terry PratchettAnd the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor, I don't know who is.
Terry PratchettPeople like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.
Terry PratchettYou see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know is that really there are just dull, dull souls, mere consumers of food, who think their instincts are emotions and their tiny lives of more account than a whisper of wind.
Terry Pratchett