"When you pay for stuff, it has more of your interests in heart."

“In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.”

Source : "The Whole Earth Epilog: Access To Tools". Book by Stewart Brand, 1974.

“What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.”

Source : John D. Barrow (1999). “Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits”, p.252, Oxford University Press on Demand

“I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.”

“As Muslims it is our duty to condemn the killings and our duty to ensure that those on the fringe do not shame our community by justifying the killing of innocent people.”

“The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.”

“In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement.”

Source : Percy Lubbock (2007). “The Craft of Fiction”, p.56, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

“The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.”

“I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.”