David Thompson

“I have become solitary,” wrote the eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “because to me the most desolate solitude seems preferable to the society of wicked men which is nourished only in betrayals and hatred.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-it notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.”
― Ellen Ullman, Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents

“Murder increases happiness.”
― Warren Ellis, CUNNING PLANS: Talks By Warren Ellis

“Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods