Brandon Milton

“You can’t go from people to nonpeople.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“it was not a good idea for the human race as a whole to make contact with extraterrestrials. The impact of such contact on human society would be divisive rather than uniting, and would exacerbate rather than mitigate the conflicts between different cultures. In summary, if contact were to occur, the internal divisions within Earth civilization would be magnified and likely lead to disaster.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“But one always awoke from a dream, just like the sun—which, though it would rise again, brought no fresh hope.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?