Caleb Mattson

“Above all, keep power out of the hands of people you would want to protect. Out of a hundred thirty-three years of living, love, that’s the highest wisdom I can come to”
― C.J. Cherryh, Cyteen

“That’s exactly what’s going on: that a handful of individuals too few to make a party and incapable of winning votes in debate thinks it can wear down the majority by terror…it’s the peace under assault, it’s our freedom under assault, and every one of these attacks, no matter how motivated, makes the lawful rest of us that much more certain we don’t want killers in charge of our lives and damned well don’t want their advice on how to conduct our affairs.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Cyteen

“In the eternal night of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, two civilizations had swept through like two shooting stars, and the universe had remembered their light.”
― Liu Cixin, Death's End

“You know why I love games? For the same reason I love literature. In a game...in a good poem or story? Death is the mother of beauty." He stopped and twisted to face me. "Know what I'm sayin'?”
― Richard Powers, Playground