Eric

“you can’t just move backward. You can’t push the chicken back into the egg, wine back into the grape, the boy back into the womb. If you want the baby to let go of your watch, you don’t just try to explain that he ought to do it—you offer him something he would rather have.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves

“Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”
― Danielle LaPorte

“Go ahead and flunk me for begging the question, then go ahead and fuck yourself for asking it.”
― Adam Levin, The Instructions