Jim

“There used to be Boy Scout troops on Mars; it makes sense if you think about it. I got my badge in knots, among other things. That was a lifetime ago, but it’s surprising how much of the Boy Scout curriculum is useful after the apocalypse. Scratch that. It’s not surprising at all. In hindsight, it seems like the Boy Scouts is an end-times preparation service.”
― Branden Frankel, Snowfall on Mars

“Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction. He”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“As if this were a special place, one of those special places that each man must seek out for himself, and count himself as lucky if he ever found it, for there were those who sought and never found it. And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it. He”
― Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

“had lost himself in his true home: the beautiful, and infinitely consoling, realm of thought alone.”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy