12 quotes
Duty often had undesirable consequences, but if it did not it would be self-indulgence and hedonism.
E-Force (2012)
And night descended, October releasing winter to creep forth from its crypt.
E-Force (2012)
You only fight when someone try walk allova you—but when dey do, you fight wit all you got.
E-Force (2012)
Novels are long-term relationships, and short stories are flings. In art, as with life, I always opted for relationships.
E-Force (2012)
“I caint believe how foolish—!”
“Yes. It was foolish,” said Tirhakah. “But freedom alone does not make men intelligent, nor do chains alone make them fools.”
E-Force (2012)
Everyone tensed. Rhetorical fingers twitched at the ragged leather of cerebral holsters.
E-Force (2012)
Sometimes we take an extreme position in art, but that may have more to do with expressing our emotions at the time of creation than of our true moral or strategic convictions.
E-Force (2012)
And I slept, and dreamt that I gazed through an electron microscope at the surface of the Guernica. I awoke to moonlight, and was troubled, and did not easily return to sleep.
E-Force (2012)
“The desire to assert that knowledge is pure subjectivity or that knowledge is never more than mere ill-founded belief is rooted in a twisted admiration for moral relativism, or perhaps worse, in an egocentric belief that ‘the universe is a product of my mind, and nothing else.’”
E-Force (2012)
When we are creating art, we’re not forensically documenting reality, but rather creating doodles and caricatures expressing often passionate arguments about how one could view the world, but not necessarily our own true convictions.
E-Force (2012)
And how did you propose to pay for the apple, if you had no hands? she asked. And the Devil said, Credit. And she asked, Who would give credit to the Devil? And the wicked one answered unto her, You’d be shocked, Toots.
E-Force (2012)
You cannot look within, or rather, you refuse to. You fear to. So all of your manipulation of the exterior is ultimately meaningless, because it is devoid of any examined motivation. You seek to change your environment because you fear to gaze at that which makes you want to change it, because you fear that you may have to change yourself.
E-Force (2012)