My usual but occasional selection of quotes which have interested or amused me recently. In no particular order …

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
[Tom Stoppard]

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think interior decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
[Anna Quindlen]

Prejudice and privilege are why we haven’t just sorted out resources (we have enough, we really do) to ensure that all humans get to eat nutritious food, receive medical care and vaccinations so they can live beyond the age of 5, have access to our bodies of collected wisdom and knowledge, have a safe place to sleep, and get a chance to experience play and pleasure so that we can all live in peace and explore the universe together.
[Maggie Mayhem; What do you care what other people think!]

If you want to understand Dogen’s philosophy you have to accept that there are many real things and phenomena in this universe that we human beings are simply not equipped to perceive, but that these things and phenomena are not parts of some mystical other realm.
[Brad Warner; Dogen for Punks]

Buddhists in the West are often precisely the same personality types you encounter at sci fi and anime conventions or in punk rock clubs. They just have a different kind of thing that turns them on. But they use it in exactly the same way, to help delineate their personality as something different from the mainstream.
[Brad Warner; Dogen for Punks]

You need not be shocked at my being spoken against. Anybody, who is spoken about at all, is sure to be spoken against by somebody, and any action, however innocent in itself, is liable, and not at all unlikely, to be blamed by somebody. If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!
[Charles Dodgson (alias Lewis Carroll) in a letter to his sister Mary, 21 September 1893; quoted in Jenny Woolf, The Mystery of Lewis Carroll]

[P]hotographs were usually taken outside on a bright day, or at least in a studio with a glass roof … The brightness of the scene had to be judged by eye, since there were no exposure meters and photographers had various dodges by which they could assess the exposure. The Swedish photographer Gustav Rejlander actually used his cat, checking to see how much its pupils were dilated in order to assess how long an exposure to give.
[Jenny Woolf, The Mystery of Lewis Carroll]
[Photo of Charles Dodgson by Rejlander, 1863]

Now isn’t that just a cool use for a cat?