Chris Elliott

“And when he beheld their dark sails, smutted by the burning tar that had blinded their enemy, he believed them blackened in mourning for the young man, and he threw himself down, and so perished. For no man lives long when his dreams are dead.”
― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw

“The people who live in any generation do much, he realized, either to create or to solve the problems for the people who come in the generations later.”
― George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

“I had reached the age of six hundred and fifty miles.”
― Christopher Priest, The Inverted World

“from those humble beginnings we learned to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favors the paranoid.”
― Peter Watts, Echopraxia