James Rozoff

You__e got to stop thinking of consciousness as your own. You__e only thinking for yourself when you are by yourself. As soon as you are in the presence of others, your consciousness is linked at some level to those others.

Will is a gift from God, desire from the devil.

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.

To be young and to experience the feeling of being alive is a sweet feeling. To feel alive and to have a purpose and a goal to that life is better still.

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.

What is wisdom? It is the result of multiple paradigms brought to their intellectual furthest reaches and balanced and merged together. The fundamentalist, the person who only sees life through a single lens, can never hope for wisdom.

Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can__ explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

But failure and success are labels placed upon people__ lives the way a child values winning a game whether or not they have to bend the rules in order to do it. But life is not a game and the rules cannot be bent without repercussions that prove damaging later on. We must play the game for all we are worth, and we must play it fairly. We play and lose and play again, over and over. We lose and we pick up and start again a little wiser. We learn the game a little better in the playing, learn lessons for the next game. And should we lose today it is only a step towards the winning of the larger game. We move our piece on the board one step at a time, but it is all part of some larger process.

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.

Sooner or later you realize there are no answers, no answers except the ones you believe. Sooner or later faith is the only answer left.

Never in mankind__ history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought.

To be myself, to follow my desires to the best of my abilities. That__ the only end worth shooting for. Success and failure lie beyond us, they may be signposts that direct us, but they are foolish goals in themselves. To truly be who I have been made to be, made myself to be, ah, that is the only mission worthy of all the life that flows within.

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

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