Source: Alice in Wonderland
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
“Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.”
Source: Every Day
He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus."
On the song "Yesterday", written by Paul McCartney
Playboy interview (1980)
“You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back”
Variant: You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
Source: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.”
Source: Ship of Magic
"Songwriting" in Making Music (1983) edited by George Martin, p. 70
“The person who insists on using yesterdays methods in today’s world won’t be in business tomorrow.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Locus interview (2000)
Context: Why do so many people dislike science fiction? The answer goes like this: You have to think of science fiction in contrast to its nearest competitor, heroic fantasy. In heroic fantasy, by and large, things are pretty stable, and then some terrible evil comes along that's going to take over the world. People have to fight it. In the end they win, of course, so the earth is restored to what it was. The status quo comes back. Science fiction's quite different. With science fiction, the world's in some sort of a state, and something awful happens. It may not be evil, it may be good or neutral, just an accident. Whatever they do in the novel, at the end the world is changed forever. That's the difference between the two genres — and it's an almighty difference! And the truth is science fiction, because we all live in a world that's changed forever. It's never going to go back to what it was in the '60s or the '70s or the '30s, or whatever. It's changed.
