„Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.“

Preface
Sackett's Land (1974)
Kontext: We are all of us, it has been said, the children of immigrants and foreigners — even the American Indian, although he arrived here a little earlier. What a man is and what he becomes is in part due to his heritage, and the men and women who came west did not emerge suddenly from limbo. Behind them were ancestors, families, and former lives. Yet even as the domestic cattle of Europe evolved into the wild longhorns of Texas, so the American pioneer had the characteristics of a distinctive type.
Physically and psychologically, the pioneers' need for change had begun in the old countries with their decision to migrate. In most cases their decisions were personal, ordered by no one else. Even when migration was ordered or forced, the people who survived were characterized by physical strength, the capacity to endure, and not uncommonly, a rebellious nature.
History is not made only by kings and parliaments, presidents, wars, and generals. It is the story of people, of their love, honor, faith, hope and suffering; of birth and death, of hunger, thirst and cold, of loneliness and sorrow. In writing my stories I have found myself looking back again and again to origins, to find and clearly see the ancestors of the pioneers.

Statement during his visit to Mexico (11 February 2009) as quoted in "China's Xi named to oversee military, a step closer to presidency" http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/73173/20101019/china-xi-presidency.htm in International Business TImes (18 October 2010)
2000s

"Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After", p. 286
Cloud Atlas (2004)

Quelle: The Eye of the World

Love not.

Quelle: The Power of One

Quelle: A Practical Guide to Samadhi (1957), p. 144

Quelle: Anarchy and Christianity (1988), p. 39

Quelle: Hawthorn and Lavender (1901), XXI
Kontext: Love, which is lust, is the Lamp in the Tomb.
Love, which is lust, is the Call from the Gloom.
Love, which is lust, is the Main of Desire.
Love, which is lust, is the Centric Fire.
So man and woman will keep their trust,
Till the very Springs of the Sea run dust.
Yea, each with the other will lose and win,
Till the very Sides of the Grave fall in.
For the strife of Love's the abysmal strife,
And the word of Love is the Word of Life.
And they that go with the Word unsaid,
Though they seem of the living, are damned and dead.

Quelle: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 24

Quelle: The Enchanted April

Be Generous!

Quelle: The Book Thief

"Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After", p. 286
Cloud Atlas (2004)

The Yosemite http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/the_yosemite/ (1912), chapter 15: Hetch Hetchy Valley
1910s

Quelle: The Stochastic Man (1975), Chapter 29 (p. 162)

Quelle: The Angel's Game