Bryan Bougher

“I also know they might be nothing more than a man hungry for meanings inventing them where they don’t exist. Arguably, all meanings are invented anyway; and since I have no one to please but myself, and no one to read this who will care, except perhaps one, then I may write as I please, and think as I please, and reread this whenever I can bear it.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

“Remember. This is one of the verbs they will try to remove from your brain. Remember. If you cannot remember, they can tell you anything about the past—your own or the world’s—and you will not be able to know if they are telling the truth.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

“I don’t know who it was, but someone, maybe or maybe not Henry James, said that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who upon seeing someone else suffering think, That could happen to me, and those who think, That will never happen to me. The first kind of people help us to endure, the second kind make life hell.”
― Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

“I notice that capable men are still at a premium in our society; we still need the man who is intelligent enough to think of the proper questions to ask.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot