Jonathan Breaux

“at some point, the necessity of doing bad things for a good cause became, by the inexorable ratchet of cognitive dissonance, the insistence that doing things the bad way was a virtue in itself. Because otherwise how could one justify all the bad things already done?”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Lords of Uncreation

“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“once you start doing terrible things because you had no choice, then next time round you do terrible things because you want to, and the precedent is set. This is a terrible thing we are doing through choice.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Lords of Uncreation