Ron Bottorff

“Nope, I said to myself while climbing into bed and switching off the light, there is no kindness in any of that. For kindness begins where necessity ends.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“And there are things about the Swiss you have to admire. They are so punktlich, so punctual— this is funny at first, but what is it but a regard for the other person? You are saying to the other person, your time is as valuable as mine, so I will not waste yours by being late. Let us agree we are all equally important and so everyone has to be on time, in order to respect each other.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

“And besides we were like wolves! We turned wolves into dogs and they turned us into humans— we were something like orangutans before, solitaries who didn’t know how to work together, it was the wolves who taught us that, who taught us the idea of friendship and cooperation”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

“All that remained was a poem and the call to be remembered, a mark to prove he’d been there. I am Solo. And a haze of chalk fell through the air like the ghost of unwritten words.”
― Hugh Howey, Shift