Brian Reid

“He was the person whom, in any group, you forgot to introduce, then introduced with extra enthusiasm.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

“Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

“If everything from the furthest planet to the smallest atom of our brain acts according to Newton’s law of motion, what becomes of free will?”
― Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

“It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man’s proper stature—and that the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning—and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or The Fountainhead that they will betray: it is their own souls.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead