Posted on November 2, 2010January 17, 2019“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.” – Dan Simmons, Hyperion
Posted on November 1, 2010January 17, 2019“None of us really changes over time; we only become more fully what we are. To put it another way, you do get wiser when you live for hundreds of years; but you also have more time to turn out as badly as your enemies said you might.” – Lestat, Queen of the Damned, by Anne Rice
