Kamas Kirian

“Nevertheless, the radio continued to blare forth statistics demonstrating how under the visionary leadership of the gifted agronomist Krushchev, Soviet agriculture was overcoming the errors of Stalin and producing ever-larger quantities of meat, milk, butter, bread and other foodstuffs.
If we have so much bread, why am I standing in line at four A.M., hoping I can buy some before it runs out? And Milk! There has been no milk in all Rubtsovsk for five days and no meat for two weeks. Well, as they say, if you want milk, just take your pail to the radio. But why does the radio keep announcing something which anybody with eyes knows is not true?”
― John Daniel Barron, MIG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lt. Belenko

“...chemists did it in their tubes and doctors did it with patience, but only a techie would do it in geometric progression.”
― Greg Bear

“Exile, for no other reason than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Cordelia's Honor

“It's other people make be bad, love,' I said with conviction. 'Like you, I start out holy every single morning.”
― Jonathan Gash, Spend Game