Carl Weiderstrom

“When winter first begins to bite and stones crack in the frosty night, when pools are black and trees are bare, ’tis evil in the Wild to fare.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“I wish I’d become a plant earlier.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

“It is dark for archery,’ said Gimli. ‘Indeed it is time for sleep. Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could. Riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself. Man was his own grimmest joke on himself. The very bedrock of humor was— “Man is the animal who laughs,”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land