“The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.”

“Civilization is a mutant beast that emerged from the shattered egg of primitive stability.-Sissy Hankshaw”

“The Apocalypse is not something out there that will eradicate everything on planet Earth. That would be far too simple. The Apocalypse is in each and every one of us. It takes courage to fight the beast.”

“A true friend honors and encourages our best self, and they will work at aaving us from self destruction, even if that means being difficult.”

“The earth-self observing the Cosmos and trying to understand the Cosmos by scientific principles from which its self is excluded is, beyond doubt, the strangest phenomenon in all of the Cosmos, far stranger than the Ring Nebula in Lyra.It, the self, is in fact the only alien in the entire Cosmos.”

“In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.”