Brendon Aiello

“Of all our observations, this is the most crucial... Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything – anything – but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“For whom, it suddenly occurred to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn. His mind hovered for a moment round the doubtful date on the page, and then fetched up with a bump against the Newspeak word, doublethink. For the first time the magnitude of what he had undertaken came home to him. How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I've set myself to become the king of the pirates... And if I die trying... then at least I tried!”
― Eiichiro Oda, One Piece Box Set, Vol. 1