Jesse Buchanan

“I have an insidious conviction that between the onset of puberty and the age of thirty, people, like the hypothetical painting in the desert, do no exist without someone looking at them. I didn't. After thirty, I suppose we become a corporeal composite of what all of our viewers have witnessed, a kind of community gelatin.”
― Katherine Dunn, Toad

“We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“What is the son but an extension of the father?”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune