If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.
Marion Zimmer BradleyFrom these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.
Marion Zimmer Bradley