Tyler Hall

“He was thinking that the cities, perhaps, needed to look into the future even more than the country did. They should look ahead for forty, eighty, one hundred and sixty years, to a strong and healthy plain of population - or to an overworked, weakened, underfed, and infertile desert.”
― Jim Thompson, Heed the Thunder

“The principle of caution, respecting the gravity of human suffering, weighs against procreating to the extent that it is unpredictable whether the person created will have a good life.”
― Sarah Perry

“Actually it is quite devastating to realise how few people ever think at all. They mostly take their ideas from what they are told on the wireless, television, or in the newspapers, from people who are prepared to take a reasonable fee. To suggest anything different makes you tread on many corns of vested interest. No professional pathfinder likes you for doing it.”
― Thomas Charles Lethbridge, The Power of the Pendulum

“The most insulting aspect of insincere people is that while they're pretending to be something other than what they are, they're inherently positing a different reality to you.”
― Daniel V Chappell