Ambition Quote by John C. Wright

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

If Vulcans had a church, they’d be Catholics.

— John C. Wright

“[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