Dong Hogge

“Our whole raison d’être was deterrent force. When you don’t deter them any longer, you lose.”
― Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon

“This is where the pot is strongest now: at the place where it had been broken.”
― Wally Lamb, We Are Water

“Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into dreams or the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification. (Terence sent me this quote the other day. A good battle cry, I believe... and one I wholeheartedly respect.)”
― Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium

“Whenever a Taker couple talk about how wonderful it would be to have a big family, they're reenacting this scene behind the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They're saying to themselves, 'Of course it's our right to apportion life on this planet as we please. Why stop of four kids or six? We can have fifteen if we like. All we have to do is plow under another few hundres acres of rain forest -- and who cares if a dozen other species disappear as a result?”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit