Simona Bălan

“Andrej’s mind, like any sane human’s, … or other sentient being's, was a constantly convulsing dialectical unity of consciousness and subconsciousness, the battening down and channelling of dreams and desires, the recurring re-creation of the subliminal by the contradictory, the rational-capricious ego. And vice versa. The interaction of levels of consciousness into an unstable and permanently self-renewing whole. Anrej's mind was not like the cold ratiocination of the Council, nor the poetic dream conciousness of the Weaver ... but with underlying structure and subconcious flow, with calculating rationality and impulsive fancy, self-maximizing analysis and emotional flow, it was [the combination thereof].”
― China Miéville, Perdido Street Station

“The notion that we live in a quiet, ordinary suburb of the galaxy was simple and comforting.
But boy, we were wrong.”
― Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth

“The quantum theory is based on the idea that there is a probability that all possible events, no matter how fantastic or silly, might occur.”
― Michio Kaku, Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

“Maybe the world has run out of room for monsters... or maybe... they're just getting harder to recognize.”
― Alan Moore, Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing