“So I ask each weepin' willow
And each brook along the way,
And each lad that comes a-whistlin' Tooralay
How are things in Glocca Morra
This fine day?”

"How Are Things in Glocca Morra?"

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American song lyricist 1896–1981

Yip Harburg (1896–1981) American song lyricist

"How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" - Petula Clark version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhnNQ6XXUKI

“I suppose we must each ask of ourselves—or each other, have fun with it, it could be a quiz—two fundamental questions: 1. Are you happy with things the way they are? And 2. Do you believe that things could be better?”

Russell Brand book Revolution

Revolution (2014)

“I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.”

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) Polish-born Jewish-American author

On winning the Nobel Prize, TIME magazine (16 October 1978)

“We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.”

Charlie Kaufman (1958) American screenwriter

Source: Adaptation.: The Shooting Script

“No matter how finely you subdivide time and space, each tiny division contains infinity.”

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer

Dune Genesis (1980)
Context: No matter how finely you subdivide time and space, each tiny division contains infinity.
But this could imply that you can cut across linear time, open it like a ripe fruit, and see consequential connections. You could be prescient, predict accurately. Predestination and paradox once more.
The flaw must lie in our methods of description, in languages, in social networks of meaning, in moral structures, and in philosophies and religions — all of which convey implicit limits where no limits exist. Paul Muad'Dib, after all, says this time after time throughout Dune.