

“You may as well tell our readers that death and taxes are coming back.”
― The Unincorporated Man
― The Unincorporated Man

“We were convinced of the inherent madness of codified inequity. All cooperation involves some measure of surrender. And coercion. But the alternative, being anarchy, is itself no worthy virtue. It is but an excuse for selfish aggression, and all that seeks justification from taking that stance is, each and every time, cold-hearted. Anarchists live in fear and long for death, because they despair of seeing in others the very virtues they lack in themselves. In this manner, they take pleasure in sowing destruction, if only to match their inner landscape of ruin. [...] We rejected civilization, but so too we rejected anarchy for its petty belligerence and the weakness of thought it announced. By these decisions, we made ourselves lost and bereft of purpose.”
― Forge of Darkness
― Forge of Darkness

“Now it's going to turn into the biggest media blitz since the Pope's divorce.”
― The Unincorporated Man
― The Unincorporated Man

“If indeed the universe posessed a mind, it was a cluttered one. And if corners such as these thrived in that mind, then the custodian was asleep, or, perhaps, drunk.”
― Fall of Light
― Fall of Light

“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.”
― Anathem
― Anathem
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