Nick Prezioso

“Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“Do you know what guerrillas often say? They claim that their rebellions are invulnerable to economic warfare because they have no economy, that they are parasitic on those they would overthrow. The fools merely fail to access the coin in which they must inevitably pay. The pattern is inexorable in its degenerative failures. You see it repeated in the systems of slavery, of welfare states, of caste-ridden religions, of socializing bureaucracies -- in any system in which creates and maintains dependencies. Too long a parasite and you cannot exist without a host.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“She read my books the way a young cannibal might eat the hearts of brave old enemies. Their magic would become hers.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird