Gustav

“This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.”
― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

“Reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.”
― Joe Haldeman, The Forever War

“It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows