

“I realized that if you avoid the sin, you will also avoid the fun.”
― The Pink Cadillac
― The Pink Cadillac

“The utopian solution to the problems of reality, according to Davis, is to idealize neither man nor nature, but organization: the utopianist devises bureaucratic and institutional systems in order to contain desire and transgression, and thus to apportion a limited supply of material satisfactions.5”
― Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia / New Atlantis / The Isle of Pines
― Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia / New Atlantis / The Isle of Pines

“The money we spend to help you is really to help ourselves. We invest in you because you will do great things, and we want to be part of it.”
― Projector for Sale
― Projector for Sale

“Look around! Look what we’ve done to the world. We fucked everything up. In a few years it’s going to be unlivable. We don’t deserve to be stewards of this planet. And that pales to the things we do to each other. We’re monsters, Sander, and someone needs to end it.”
― The Sixth Borough
― The Sixth Borough

“But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
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