The Fall of Babel (The Books of Babel #4)

by Josiah Bancroft

Anyone who has ever peered into a telescope and spied the unexplored sprawl bottled therein knows that wonder only ceases when examination ends. —Everyman’s Guide to the Tower of Babel, VII. XII

My genius is that I understand the wellspring of human desire. It bubbles up, not from some buried stream of hope, but from a great aquifer of fear.”

suxks when the bad guys are right. we live in a society where looking for joy and happiness and inspiration doesn't beat survival in capitalism.

Let the generals mop up the battlefield for a change, then see how long they’d go before waging another war!

Ambivalence is the midwife of happiness. Do not make promises when a shrug will suffice.

“Oh, I think all trees can talk, it’s just that hardly anyone ever listens.”