Mark A. Rayner > Quotes

“People who have so much of their personality invested in the Internet can’t really survive as whole individuals without it.”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Fridgularity

“That’s the thing about the collapse of civilization, Blake. It never happens according to plan – there’s no slavering horde of zombies. No actinic flash of thermonuclear war. No Earth-shuddering asteroid. The end comes in unforeseen ways; the stock market collapses, and then the banks, and then there is no food in the supermarkets, or the communications system goes down completely and inevitably, and previously amiable co-workers find themselves wrestling over the last remaining cookie that someone brought in before all the madness began.”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Fridgularity

“Winter arrived with December, and the world continued to suffer the loss of the Internet and most forms of communication. Supply chains were disrupted. The only mass form of personal communication was the letter, and postal workers were having their worst year ever, as they were actually meeded. Food was becoming scarcer and more expensive, as was fuel for vehicles and heating. Major cities experienced riots on a regular basis, spurred on by religious fervor and want. Civilization was on the brink of collapse.”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Fridgularity

“It was a brave old world.”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Fridgularity

“To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the stench of failure, soap up the death of hope, then wash away the ashes of his love for Daphne.”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Fridgularity

“But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Fridgularity

“You humans are crazy.”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Amadeus Net

“Everyone is a psychoanalyst, it would seem, and they try to dig beneath words. I say what I mean. There is no subtext. I”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Amadeus Net

“A mystery. Love strikes where it will, not where you will it.”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Amadeus Net

“It has always been thus, that the mundane masks the magnificent in us.”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Amadeus Net

“We can be very cruel to one another, even when we’re old enough to know better, when we’ve outgrown the intense selfishness of youth. She”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Amadeus Net

“It’s uh, pathetic. To realize at my age that I actually had promise, a life of passion in front of me, and that I threw it away for the security of what? Numbness. It’s”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Amadeus Net

“I once had an artist in the old days who was so nervous he threw up during the gala opening of the show. The reviews read, ‘artwork so bad, even the artist couldn’t stomach it.’ We”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Amadeus Net

“Imagine me, mild-mannered as milquetoast, saving the world? No, not even as grand as that. If I’m called upon, the world will just have ended. I’ll”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Amadeus Net

“you must work very hard to accept the Buddha nature. And I know how you can resolve this.” But he would not tell me that day, saying it was best left for a later time. And the next day, he died. My brother monks found it hilarious. “He will tell you when he gets back,” one of the elders told me, laugh­ing. I”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Amadeus Net

“One would think the governments of these countries would know better, but they are just as asinine as all governments throughout history. Maybe”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Amadeus Net

“Oh, I can’t tell you too much Arthur. Just”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Amadeus Net