ELLIOTTCABLE

“A luxury, once enjoyed, becomes a necessity.”
― C Northcote Parkinson

“I do not dream, der Grimnebulin. I am a calculating machine that has calculated how to think. I do not dream.”
― China Miéville, Perdido Street Station

“The original plan for this novella was for it to be 18,000 words. It ended up at around 40,000. Ah well. That just happens sometimes. (Particularly when you are me.)”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“I have had a big experience of body vermin of various kinds, and for sheer beastliness the louse beats everything I have encountered. Other insects, mosquitoes for instance, make you suffer more, but at least they aren’t resident vermin. The human louse somewhat resembles a tiny lobster, and he lives chiefly in your trousers. Short of burning all your clothes there is no known way of getting rid of him. Down the seams of your trousers he lays his glittering white eggs, like tiny grains of rice, which hatch out and breed families of their own at horrible speed. I think the pacifists might find it helpful to illustrate their pamphlets with enlarged photographs of lice. Glory of war, indeed! In war all soldiers are lousy, at least when it is warm enough. The men who fought at Verdun, at Waterloo, at Flodden, at Senlac, at Thermopylae—every one of them had lice crawling over his testicles.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia