"It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish, as my old
gaffer used to say."
Sam on leaving Lorien, The Mirror of Galadriel

We shall not cease from exploration,
      and the end of all our exploring
              will be to arrive
             where we started
and know the place for the first time.

-- TS Elliot

The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
 -- Margaret Thatcher

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

- Normal Mailer

“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”

― Mark Twain

There is lust and there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up a rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.
-- Anne Fortier (Juliet)

Do not go gentle into that good night

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

“Interstellar” features this classic poem by Dylan Thomas