Jeffrey

“What you intend and what you do not intend have smaller import than you might suspect. The question is not what you shall do with life but what life shall do with you.”
― John C. Wright, The Phoenix Exultant

“There he was, sipping tea from a dainty bulb, seated on a fresh-grown mat woven in the traditional style, with his hypnotic Warlock formulation-rod to one side, and his slate in reading mode on the other, tuned to the proper subchannels and ready with the proper routines, ready to undertake a thorough neural investigation, cleaning, and reconstitution.

A tea-bulb, a mat, a rod, a brain interface. All the simple and basic necessities of life. He was beginning to feel like a civilized man again.”
― John C. Wright, The Phoenix Exultant

“The idea of relying on the government was laughable. The government's job isn't to help you! Their job is tofind new and creative ways of making your life immeasurably worse.”
― Kristy Shen, Quit Like a Millionaire: No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required

“I told you you could hang around and work for food," she said, "if you don't mind sleeping in that car yonder."

"Why listen, Lady," he said with a grin of delight, "the monks of old slept in their coffins!"

"They wasn't as advanced as we are," the old woman said.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories