Ian Wilson

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The man is mollified. The systematic juices leave off bubbling, the fires sink, the coals are scattered.

But the anger is still there, apart. Energy is never lost; a primal law.
-"Mad House”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories

“Life is not a song, sweetling.
Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune