More words, more words, more words?

Last post was pretty non-representative of most of what I've randomly written these last few months.  Just for fun, I'm going to put up a smattering of random quotes or excerpts from things that I find mildly amusing or thought provoking.  These can be musings, class notes, or attempts at a novel this summer that I still deserve to be beaten to death with a fish for not completing...

"The material on the SmarterBoard was always formatted the same way and the walls were always that same color of puke beige.  Not that puke is a shade of beige, but that’s what Devon wanted to do every time he saw it." from Numberless, the book that I've needed to write ever since I had to go through AP testing...

Why Daniel is too ridiculous to be allowed to title chapters:
"Chapter 1: Night is dark.  And there’s no light too."

"HOW DO PEOPLE HAVE TIME FOR 151 HRS OF TV A MONTH?!" A completely valid reaction in notetaking to learning this country's average tv viewing habits.

On selecting character names:
"Other names come up off the top of the author’s head, or from random encounters with envelope labels, waitstaff, or other works of fiction that names are subsequently borrowed from.

These particular names come from popular names for pet slugs.  Thank you, yahoo answers.

As you can tell, I do not have the highest opinions of men, particularly ones I get to write about."

Aaand finally, the introduction to a book which rightfully was not followed through with, because writing books about my life tempts me to live a far too dramatic of a lifestyle.
"Fiction is the expression as life the way we wished it went, with less rules, physics, social norms, or any inconvenient, inglorious obstacles.  It minimizes the average in the human experience, and brings out our fantasies and heights of imagination.  It is a wonderful thing to live these out on paper, on television, in a perfectly simulated environment where we play the roles of that which we wish to be.  Yet by empowering the imagination artificially, one key factor is overlooked.  Man’s potential is not bounded to reality in the dull patterns that we see when comparing it to new unreal worlds.  It can become so if we siphon our creative efforts solely into worlds where we cannot be physically present and invested. 

We are all that stops us from entering a world as good as fiction.

Who says we cannot write our own story?  We’re already responsible for 50% of the dialogue, the actions of a main character, and some portion of the direction.  Authors can write a story without knowing the ending, if they know how to follow their instinct.  Life doesn’t have to be a set course.  Decisions can change its course, move us from one plotline to another.  Characters and subplots can be addressed or dismissed, and learning experiences can easily enable new adventures.

Open your eyes to the story around you.  This is your book.  You can be an author of a greater story, or merely a citation for dialogue."