"But at least think about it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a human being who needed to get laid worse than you do now."

— Lois McMaster Bujold

"The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of be…"

— James Baldwin

"A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right d…"

— Charles Stross

"e would probably claim Kafka as an Irish writer. His tone of voice is certainly quite Irish: that sense of melancholy, that sense of strange…"

— John Banville

"I knew that he prayed a great deal, of course for help in the examinations. But subsequent clinical experience has convinced me that God is …"

— Robertson Davies