"The simplest answer is to act."

--Fortune cookie

"At Tom's back, receding from view, lay State Street's Victorian brick facades, where lobbyists and trade associations housed their offices, like a Mount Everest base camp for professional influence peddlers."

--Joan Quigley, The Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy

"Even SF is the art of the plausible. So, critics might say, there lies SF's weakness."

--Brian Aldiss, "Foreward: Attempting to Please", Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time

"If you're thinking of turning off your power in order to embrace a sustainable lifestyle, DON'T DO IT. How could you do such a horrible thing? Hundreds of thousands of people are without power in Southern Illinois -- think of what they'd do.

They'd do their laundry."

--the girlfriend

"Too much is close enough for rock 'n roll."

--!!!, "Myth Takes"

"The dread of something menacing that you felt when you were a child returns when you get old."

--Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers

"Jesse follows them down, holding on to the rail--somethingshe never did
before the baby. She is used to being physically reckless. Now she has to behave
like a courier of valuable goods."

--Carol Anshaw, Aquamarine