Valeri Sokolov

“You’re upsetting a delicate balance of corruption that has existed here for centuries.”
― Dan Simmons, Endymion

“If we had some cheese, we could have a ham-and-cheese sandwich,” replies Father Captain de Soya, “if we had some ham.”
― Dan Simmons, Endymion

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Disneyland was designed to stay operational even during a blackout or other civic emergency. It was never intended to operate through an apocalypse.”
― John Joseph Adams, The End Has Come