Derek

“[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

“Don't give me your Christian shit about forgiveness.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Warriors of the Storm

“...one never knows what interesting fact will turn up when researching a book!”
― Ellen Prager, Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Ocean's Oddest Creatures

“Again we are all sprung from the same seed, all have the same father, by whom mother earth the giver of increase, when she has taken in from him the liquid drops of moisture, conceives and bears goodly crops and joyous trees and the race of man, bears all kinds of brute beasts, in that she supplies food with which all feed their bodies and lead a pleasant life and continue their race; wherefore with good cause she has gotten the name of mother.”
― Lucretius, The Nature of Things