Nathan

“I was asking people, "Have you ever seen a night launch before?"

One guy answered, "Not from the outside, no."

You have to be careful about trying to be cool at a Rockwell party.”
― Penn Jillette, Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic

“I have a story to tell you. It has many beginnings, and perhaps one ending. Perhaps not. Beginnings and endings are contingent things anyway; inventions, devices. Where does any story really begin? There is always context, always an encompassingly greater epic, always something before the described events, unless we are to start every story with “BANG! Expand! Sssss…,” then itemize the whole subsequent history of the universe before settling down, at last, to the particular tale in question. Similarly, no ending is final, unless it is the end of all things…”
― Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist

“We are wasting time.
Time wastes itself. Who are we to float in its way?”
― Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist

“There was no specific reason for Dwellers to band together at this point in their lives, they just in general enjoyed joining clubs, sodalities, orders, leagues, parties, societies, associations, fellowships, fraternities, groups, guilds, unions, fractionals, dispensationals and recreationalities, while always, of course, leaving open the possibility of taking part in ad hoc non-ceremonial serendipitous one-time gatherings as well. The social calendar was crowded.”
― Iain M. Banks