Bill

“Those two little words -- says you -- are the most powerful argument in any discipline: theology, philosphy, even domestic harmony. They are powerful because they are true. Whenever you say something, it is you who says it. You. And what do you know?”
― J. Mark Bertrand, Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World

“You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away.”
― Mick Herron, Joe Country

“The truth is, preparing for interstellar travel and then sending out ships filled with colonists is bound to be a job so long, thankless, expensive, and difficult that I suspect that only a religion could do it. A lot of people will find ways to make money from it. That might get things started. But it will take something as essentially human and as essentially irrational as religion to keep them focused and keep it going—for generations if it takes generations. I suspect it will. You see, I have thought about this.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.”
― Christopher Buckley