Chuck Jones

“Knowledge is sometimes painful, but the pain is how you learn.”
― Brandon Applegate, Those We Left Behind, and Other Sacrifices

“The value of it. The value of a human life.’ Kawahara shook her head like a teacher with an exasperating student. ‘You are still young and stupid. Human life has no value. Haven’t you learned that yet, Takeshi, with all you’ve seen? It has no value, intrinsic to itself. Machines cost money to build. Raw materials cost money to extract. But people?’ She made a tiny spitting sound. ‘You can always get some more people. They reproduce like cancer cells, whether you want them or not. They are abundant, Takeshi. Why should they be valuable?”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

“We sit here, three silhouettes carved from electronic sleet in the difference storm, and you talk like a cheap period drama. Limited vision, lieutenant, limited vision. Where is the voice that said altered carbon would free us from the cells of our flesh? The vision that said we would be angels.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

“What is the past to love? Kido wondered as he thought about Rié’s late husband. I suppose it’s a fact that the present is a result of the past. In other words, one is able to love someone in the present thanks to the past that made them the way they are.”
― Keiichirō Hirano, A Man