In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
Robert Heinlein
For a science fiction writer, Robert Heinlein has a lot of great short quotes that have nothing to do with Sci-Fi.
Heinlein is one of my Holy Trinity of writers… the other 2 are King and Asimov. :-)
I’m not a huge Stephen King fan (his recent books just haven’t been doing it for me) but his new book, Cell, is just awesome.
Check out “The Notebooks of Lazarus Long”
http://www.angelfire.com/or/sociologyshop/lazlong.html