Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to...'Nothing says you have to swallow this,' Rant told me. 'You can always just die.

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

We're the culture that cried wolf.

If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.

Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.