Mark Shurville

“Or perhaps you’re familiar with ethanol, which is a chemical that can be metabolized into poor life choices.”
― Kelly Weinersmith, Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything

“But I was also one of those unfortunate cases who could not help but wonder whether my need for American charity was due to my having first been the recipient of American aid.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“A life lived entirely at the whim of another is no life at all.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time