Dan Santelli

“Yet all the fun we had riding bicycles and kicking soccer balls counted for nothing because they were in here working, wearing paper hats and striped aprons as if they were in an Archie comic. They were already kids and we were still children.”
― Ivan Vladislavić, Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked

“And yet the winds of time were blowing; heedless of mankind they blew to and fro in the world preying upon beauty; and no one could escape them, not even children so newly born as to be still unnamed.”
― Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe

“But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over.”
― Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

“...art offers a safe(ish) arena in which to confront our demons, and sometimes to triumph over them: a fictive arena in which "happy endings" remain possible, rather than the unhappy ending that awaits us all.”
― Anna Goldsworthy, The God We Made: The Threat and Promise of Artificial Intelligence; Quarterly Essay 102