We live in a universe ruled by very few laws, but the redoubling of violence by violence is one of the main ones. - Kim Stanley Robinson

Only a few people in this world were lucky enough to run into their true partners—it took outrageous luck for it to happen, then the sense to recognize it, and the courage to act. Few could be expected to have all that, and then to have things go well. The rest had to make do.

The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

“You damned liberals.”
“I don’t know what that means.”
“It means you’re too soft-hearted to ever actually do anything.”