Daniel

“I’d say, ‘Pass the butter’, and Dad would say, Denny, are you sure the army is what you want? I’d say, ‘Pass the butter someone, okay?’ and Mom would ask Denny if he wanted her to pick him up one of the Pendleton shirts on sale downtown, and I’d end up getting the butter myself.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Life evolves. Parasites evolve. Sex evolves to counter the parasites. Shuffles the genes so the parasites have to shoot for a moving target. Everything else—species diversity, density-dependence, everything—it all follows from those three laws. You get a self-replicating string past a certain threshold, it’s like a nuclear reaction.”
― Peter Watts, Starfish

“There comes a moment in life when we see ourselves as others see us. I suppose that is part of growing up, and it is not always comfortable.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pale Horseman

“and at the end all there may be is the stupid, unthinking scream of living tissue.”
― Stephen King, The Talisman