Austin Beeman

“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

“Your unique individuality seems a petty thing, less important by far than what connects you to everyone else.”
― Michael Pronko, Motions and Moments

“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

“One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.”
― Alfred Bester, Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester