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A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb
if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

So you see, a man's history when other folks tell it is a pitiful confusion.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

The greater the scope in implementing an activity, the greater the need for strict attention to small details.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

When you serve a beer-cock an ear.

Social conventions were avenues as much as barriers.

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

It was like the Iran/Contra hearings in the last century; then, too, the investigators had looked just so far and no further.

He had know guys all his life who gave him that feeling. Even as a kid. People who were always lying, even when they didn't have to.

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

the so-called free world was a dictatorship that used media and conformist conditioning to enforce its dominion.

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

No Gods Or Kings. Only Man. -Andrew Ryan