“He paused and maneuvered his thoughts. It was like watching oil tankers doing three-point turns in the English Channel” – Douglas Adams, ‘So Long And Thanks For All The Fish’

“Look, there’s somewhere you can take us where we can have fun…we can get drunk and maybe listen to some extremely evil music.” – Douglas Adams, ‘Life, The Universe, and Everything’

“This reality is so fixed & it can’t always / be a matter of escaping to other realms, right.” – Alina Pleskova, “Blood Moon”

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—” – Douglas Adams, ‘The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe’

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

“Let the emptiness our war heroes carry be the metaphor for a while.” – Ross Gay, “The High-Five From Strangers, Etc.”

“She knew better than to envision any further: the future was a room with a warp on the floor.” – Tiffany Morris, “Night in the Chrysalis”

“And this is not a science lesson anymore / Forget the last diagram / These are survival tactics” – Kenny Bradley, “Cells are products of their environments too”

“This reality is so fixed & it can’t always / be a matter of escaping to other realms, right.” – Alina Pleskova, “Blood Moon”

“I can’t remember the words of things. The words for words. I have lost my words. What’s this from? Is is the Internet?” – Aimee Bender, “Wordkeepers”