Christopher Barclay

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him—he has known a fear beyond every other.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light.”
― Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics

“He sallied forth, having told all those bally lies with the clear, blue, pop-eyed gaze of a young child.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves