Facts Are Lonely Things.

What Terrorists Gain, Novelists Lose.

The Writer Is The Person Who Stands Outside Society, Independent Of Affiliation And Independent Of Influence.

It Was Important For Him To Believe That He'd Spent His Life Among People Who Kept Missing The Point.

Men With Secrets Tend To Be Drawn To Each Other, Not Because They Want To Share What They Know But Because They Need The Company Of The Like-minded, The Fellow Afflicted.

This Is The Whole Point Of Technology. It Creates An Appetite For Immortality On The One Hand. It Threatens Universal Extinction On The Other. Technology Is Lust Removed From Nature. - Murray (wn 285)