"So be it! See to it!" Octavia Butler
Quotes
quotes that struck me in some way
"The sun could love the starts but never as their equal" Gavilar, Stormlight Archive, Brandon Sanderson
"Damn this world that just won't hold still for us" Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
"What is his lost trade? Definitely of a servant class and something to do with the dead, though he is not an embalmer. Perhaps he stores something in his body - a substance to prolong life - of which he is periodically milked by his masters. He is as specialized as an insect, for the performance of some inconceivably vile function." Junkie, William S. Burroughs
"A functioning police state needs no police" Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
"When it comes to [economic] models, it's the magician who decides what comes out of the hat" Kjell-Olof Feldt (Swedish Minister of Finance 1980s)
"Don't Try" Charles Bukowski (Written on his Grave)
"I see liberty being strangled like a dog everywhere I look, I see my own country overwhelmed by ugliness and mediocrity and overcrowding, the land smothered under airstrips and super-highways, the natural wealth of a million years squandered on atomic bombs and tin automobilesand television sets and ball point fountain pens." Paul Bondi, The Brave Cowboy, Edward Abbey