Steve Rainwater

“Only two kinds of people can not change their minds, my friend, the foolish and the dead.”
― Seabury Quinn, The Dark Angel

“The man who will demand ten signatures upon a promissory note and look askance at you if you tell him of interplanetary distances, will swallow any idle fable, no matter how absurd, if it be boldly asserted and surrounded with sufficient nonsensical mummery and labeled as a religion.”
― Seabury Quinn, The Devil's Rosary

“My business is to know things, especially things which I am not supposed to know.”
― Seabury Quinn, Black Moon: The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, Volume Five

“Technologists gave you everything you could possibly want. Push a button, and you get it. Instead of taking part in the machine age, you let it wait on you. You spoiled yourself. When the machine age cracks up, you crack up, too. Because you never made yourself its master; you just let yourself be mechanically pampered.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., The View from the Stars