COINCIDENCE You weren’t paying attention to the other half of what was going on. - John Brunner

Damn right I voted for him. But if I’d known then what I know now, I wouldn't have cast a vote — I’d have cast a brick.

The sidewalks they passed were crowded. Most of the onlookers were black, and many were children whose eyes reflected unfulfillable dreams. The city's heart was dying before its carcass, and these were the poor, trapped in outworn clothes and rat-ridden tenements.

You know, that’s what’s wrong with us on the public level. We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better. Our society is hurtling in free fall toward heaven knows where,