Brian Parris

“Sometimes I dream--"
"I'll put that on your gravestone.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“What is there left to understand? Choice is an illusion. Freedom is conceit. The hands that reach out to guide your every step, your every thought, come not from the gods, for they are no less deluded than we - no, my friends, those hands come to each of us... from each of us.”
― Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters

“Never mind the truth. The past is what I say it is. That is the freedom of teaching the ignorant.”
― Steven Erikson, Reaper's Gale

“In the 1970s, 3 percent of retiring members became lobbyists. Thirty years later, that number has increased by an order of magnitude. Between 1998 and 2004, more than 50 percent of senators and 42 percent of House members made that career transition.”
― Lawrence Lessig, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It