Coucher de soleil

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of new investors' deposits. The costs of holding imperial territory can only be underwritten by loot and tribute extracted by constant new conquests; empires must continue to expand if they are not to collapse.”
― Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“What I am
is tired of jam.”
― Russell Hoban