No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing. - Joanne Harris
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life - Henry David Thoreau
Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast. - Julien Torma