Brian Crayne

“Human nature doesn’t change, Randy. Education is hopeless. The most educated people in the world can turn into Aztecs or Nazis just like that.” He snaps his fingers.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

“They gave no alms; in their view charity simply demoralized people. If you worked as hard as they did then you would earn as much too: it was open to everyone to do so, and if you didn’t know how to get on in life that was your own fault.”
― Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist

“Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?”
― Thomas Hardy

“M'Lord, I know from history that once upon a time in a much earlier Church, a vocation to the priesthood meant a call from the bishop, not necessarily a call from God. And I heard the Bishop of Rome himself call you to be that which you have now become by ordination and consecration.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman