“The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.”

“What one needs to do at every moment of one's life is to put an end to the old world and to begin a new world.”

“The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.”

“Our world is rotten, but I’ve no confidence that the new world will be better!”

“What we celebrate today is not a victory of party or of individuals. What we celebrate is a beginning as well as an end; a change as well as a restoration. A beginning to end poverty, and misery; a beginning to end ignorance and hopelessness; and a beginning to restore all that is good, beautiful and sublime in our lives as one people under God.”

“The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.”

“The events that I submit are now under way will transform our lives, our world, in the most fundamental, radical fashion, within a relatively short number of years. We are at the end of a civilization, and therefore at the beginning of a new one: if we would have it so, this can be the most brilliant in our long history.”

“All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.”

“Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.”

“The basis of science is the empirical method, which uses the senses to build up a picture of the world; but science tells us that our senses have evolved to help us get by, not to show us the world as it is. Science is only a systematic examination of our impressions, and in the end all each of us has left are our own sensations … The end-result of the empirical method, then, is that each individual is left alone with their own experiences. We can escape this solitude, Balfour suggested, only if we accept that there is a divine mind.”