“Phaeton said, "No civilization can exist without money. Even one in which energy is as cheap and free as air on Earth, would still have some needs and desires which some people can fulfill better than others. An entertainment industry,… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“The sensation of a baseball bat to the face was not any more pleasant when it came from an unexpected direction, without warning.” — John C. Wright Copy Share
“Truth destroys the worst in man; pleasure destroys the best. If you love truth more than happiness, then open; otherwise, let rest.” His” — John C. Wright Copy Share
Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no,… — John C. Wright Copy Share
“You were burning in the middle of the worst solar storm our records can remember. (...) Everyone else fled. All your companions and crew… — John C. Wright Copy Share
“All medieval and classic cultures of the ancient world, including those on which Tolkien modeled his elves, routinely exposed their young and marriageable women… — John C. Wright Copy Share
“On THE AMBER SPYGLASS: "If this plotline was a motorist, it would have been arrested for driving while intoxicated, if it had not perished… — John C. Wright Copy Share
“She said, “Look me right in the eye, and tell me you don’t love me, and I’ll go.” He stared at her. “Miss, I… — John C. Wright Copy Share
“Of the seven Archons that had combined to form the Milky Way mind, Orion had been the Archon whose verve and remorseless drive inspired… — John C. Wright Copy Share
“Euryphaean, and the music of an instrument called a pianoforte, infinite resistance coil and the sanity glass, and all the inventions that sprang from” — John C. Wright Copy Share
“Dr. Henry Templeton got the drop on me after I killed his grandfather before he was born. Apparently, that wasn’t enough to stop the… — John C. Wright Copy Share
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition… — John C. Wright Copy Share
“[After a period of separation, Phaeton and Daphne are cuddling.] Diomedes, meanwhile, was leaning to look behind Helion, staring with open fascination at the… — John C. Wright Copy Share
“ ... a Second Generation of machine intelligences was attempted, designed with their instructions for how to think unalterably imprinted into their main process… — John C. Wright Copy Share
