I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience. - Kage Baker

True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.

Any brute will demand his right to be a law unto himself, beating his wife and his children as he pleases, and defend that right with his father’s rifle and think himself a patriot.

Edward raises the pointer and places its tip against Alec’s forehead. “What’s the use of having a library in there if you won’t open the books, boy? What’s the good of augmented intelligence if you won’t use it?”