The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

We’ll all say that. We’ll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it’s all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Territories, and Mars will be gone and we’ll be here, and we’ll wonder why we feel so empty. Why when we look at the land we can never see anything but our own faces.