Austin Beeman

“How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol horde got bored?”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“And then there is the most self-indulgent truffle recipe of all, which a friend claims is the closest thing on earth to having heaven in your mouth. You start with a generous slice of foie gras, and place it on a sheet of tinfoil. You then place your truffle on the foie gras and put it in the oven, where the truffle gradually sinks into the melting foie gras. The complex, slightly earthy taste of the truffle and the unctuous coating of foie gras may put you off hamburgers forever. Bon appétit!”
― Peter Mayle, My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now

“I suspect that there are just two sorts of lawyers: those who spend their efforts making life easy for other people—and parasites.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“Through the vistas of the years every age but our own seems glamorous and golden. We yearn for the yesterdays and tomorrows, never realizing that we are faced with Hobson’s Choice … that today, bitter or sweet, anxious or calm, is the only day for us. The dream of time is the traitor, and we are all accomplices to the betrayal of ourselves.”
― Alfred Bester, Virtual Unrealities, The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester