Michael Ellis

“the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it’s found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don’t care, but they’re massively outnumbered by the people who do. And because of that, I had billions of people on my side.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“You died if you had no believers, and that was what a small god generally worried about. But you also died if you died.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“Because what gods need is belief, and what humans want is gods.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods