Brad

“There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

“But he bent over the book again. In a weird way it was just too good to put down. It was like a novel so disgusting you just have to finish it.”
― Stephen King, Misery

“I was glad to be gone from that place, for they listened not to simple reason, looked not at the world about them, sought not the truth, believing instead in the literal words of ancient tales - truths, history, parables, myths, legends, fables, and facts intermingled and recorded on their 'infallible' scrolls.”
― Dennis L. McKiernan, The Eye of the Hunter

“Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?”
― Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment