Zak

“Los Angeles will not, of course, collapse. Rather, it will stagger on with higher body counts and greater distress, through a chain of more frequent and destructive encounters with disasters of all sorts. Southern California’s golden age forever will be superseded. It is not simply its conjugation of earthquakes, wildfires, and floods, but it’s uniquely explosive mixture of natural hazards and social contradictions.”
― Mike Davis

“The mental state that occurs during orgasm has been described as an "altered state of consciousness" that may lead to a state of tranquility and deep unconsciousness, to which the French have attributed the name "le petit mort", the little death.”
― Komisaruk / Beyer-Flores / Whipple

“Louis XVI was executed because they considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who executed him—also for some reason. What is bad? What is good? What should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I? What is life, and what is death? What power governs all?”
― León Tolstói, War and Peace

“The enemy was a tangible thing, a propagandist’s monster whom you could understand, whom you could hate.”
― Joe Haldeman, The Forever War