"When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment."

-- Nalo Hopkinson

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“Individuals because of their identity can't render an impartial judgment is just deeply offensive and contrary to all the ideals of the judicial system that we value.”

Source : "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.
“How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.”

Source : "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 552, 1991.
“I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.”
“I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful of pond water beside the vast ocean of longing I felt surging through me. My head swam; my eyes blurred. I burned from the inside out as if my blood and bones were consumed with liquid fire.”
“Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons.”

Source : John Arcudi, Mike Mignola (2011). “B.P.R.D.: The Black Flame #2”, p.1, Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)
“It's not that I want to win, it's just that I don't want to lose.”
“Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.”

Source : "Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture" by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1862.
“Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he believed that a better world could and would be made. He had never held any illusions that he would change the world, of course, or even a substantial portion of it, but he always held strongly that fighting to better just his own little pocket of the world was a worthwhile cause.”

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