Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything. PS. - David Bowie

In terms of the spaceship Earth, the wrong crew is in command, and it’s time for a mutiny. PS. - Jose Arguelles

My God doesn’t love me or hate me or watch over me or know me at all, and I feel no love for or loyalty to my God. My God just is. PS. - Octavia E. Butler,  Parable of the Sower

... the blast signatures of a detonated supernova and that of a nuclear bomb are identical. PS. - Eric Chaisson, Epic of Evolution

Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound. PS. - Oh Pure And Radiant Heart

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft ... This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The past is never where you think you left it. PS. - Katherine Anne Porter

John Wayne's teeth, hey-a, hey-a! Are they false, are they real, are they plastic, are they steel? PS. - Smoke Signals

O, my offence is rank; it smells to heaven. PS. - Hamlet

Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically. PS. - Alice Walker

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? PS. - Henry David Thoreau

Meanwhile, people are forming attachments to non-human chatbots, projecting consciousness on to entities that do not possess it. www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

Blake: ... Something that one lives with like an albatross round the neck. No, more like a millstone. A plumbing stone, by God! Damn them all! PS. - The Fog

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for. - Laurence J. Peter

It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked. PS. - mayhaps Marcus Tullius Cicero

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. PS. - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. PS. Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

Insanity is contagious. - Heller

I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back. PS. - Anya Seton, Katherine

So the plan wasn't a clusterf*ck, it was just circling the clusterf*ck target zone, getting ready to come in for a landing. PS. - Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket. PS. - Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“Cut the utilities, condemn the building, demo it, take it under eminent domain, whatever you can do. Make it impossible for them to use our neighborhood for a concentration camp,” he said. “This will not be solved by a harshly worded letter or resolution. We need action.” wdet.org/2026/02/27/c...

Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/...

And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void. And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. And We said: 'Look at that fucker Dance.' PS. - Infinite Jest

We're like a two-year old playing with fire ... we're messing around with something really dangerous and don't really understand what will happen. PS. - William F. Laurance

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse. PS. - David Weber, A Beautiful Friendship

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. PS. - Howard Zinn

Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen! warprayer.org

BLOOD. The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there. - A Tale of Two Cities

"Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good." PS. - Wallace Stevens

If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. PS. - Lenny Bruce

You're a tough guy, but I'm a nightmare wrapped in the apocalypse. PS. - James S.A. Corey, Gods of Risk

Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks, The lady of situations. - T.S. Eliot

Everybody Wang Chung Tonight...

“I was a good deal more interested in the possibility of finding life on other planets than in the question of whether life on this one was worth living.” PS. - C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. PS. - Friedrich Schiller

“We must dare to think about ‘unthinkable things’ because when things become ‘unthinkable,’ thinking stops and action becomes mindless.” PS. - J. William Fulbright

Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind. PS. - William Shakespeare,  King Lear

"I deeply regret that I am not able to give you any information upon the state of the Union which is more satisfactory than what I was then obliged to communicate. On the contrary, matters are still worse at present than they then were..." PS. - Buchanan's final Message To Congress

Of course we can establish constitutional checks and balances, but those won’t mean a thing unless citizens make sure the safeguards are taken seriously. The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage. - The Postman

It matters not at all whether we are holding our breath for a triumph or bracing for a tragedy. For as long as we are waiting, we are not living.