“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”

The Crippled God (2011)

Geek Speak Magazine Interview (2010)

Source: Clockwork Princess

Letter to Thomas Sloan, (1 September 1791)

The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870), Note I : Hâjî Abdû, The Man
Context: The Hâjî regrets the excessive importance attached to a possible future state: he looks upon this as a psychical stimulant, a day dream, whose revulsion and reaction disorder waking life. The condition may appear humble and prosaic to those exalted by the fumes of Fancy, by a spiritual dram-drinking which, like the physical, is the pursuit of an ideal happiness. But he is too wise to affirm or to deny the existence of another world. For life beyond the grave there is no consensus of mankind… Even the instinctive sense of our kind is here dumb. We may believe what we are taught: we can know nothing. He would, therefore, cultivate that receptive mood which, marching under the shadow of mighty events, leads to the highest of goals, — the development of Humanity. With him suspension of judgment is a system.

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

NPR http://www.npr.org/2012/02/16/146988012/liu-xiaobo-no-enemies-no-hatred-only-courage - &quot;Liu Xiaobo: &#x27;No Enemies, No Hatred,&#x27; Only Courage&quot; 16 Feb. 2012 <br class="br">Context: I hope that I will be the last victim in China&#x27;s long record of treating words as crimes. Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

Source: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 22, “The Bubble Bath” (p. 306)

Source: The Venetian Bracelet (1829), Lines of Life