Jame Crumpacker

“My initial impression of her had been totally wrong. The impression that she was this sweet and stunningly beautiful Vietnamese girl who had survived a difficult time in her life, and was, perhaps, still vulnerable. But, now it was different. She was nothing but a paid whore. It took me a moment to analyze it. Totally against my character, but I realized, if only for a fleeting instant, I wanted to take this whore to bed, even though there would be no spice of pursuit, and it would generate no particular tension between us.”
― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one;”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell