This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. This is only a test.

The moon is made of cheese. Oh, for some tasty moon cheese.

It's that endless wait in the dark.

You show me someone who'll eat lima beans without being at gunpoint, I'll show you a pervert!

Now there was always wind. It whistled through the permanent night.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not long keep the world from what it wants.
-Booker T. Washington

Life is hard on us heroes.

A scale that makes the construction of the Panama Canal seem like a weekend do-it-yourself project.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-John Adams

The inevitability of progress is a myth, hence the certainty that mankind is wiser today than yesterday is chimeric.
-John Paul II

contortions appropriate to a monkey dying in convulsions

He did not care to think about the chance of failure.

It's dark in the oubliette.

It seemed the most unnecessary statement he had ever heard.

He'd have left no scars in the clouds.

Black night and clear bright stars

Just so, with just such patience, might a dead man wait for Judgment Day.

He had seen light flare, and known that he was doomed.

Furtively, with the feeling of someone about to rub salt into his own raw flesh...

And anyway, despite the eyes, she was really quite good-looking.

Literally retarded, like a kid who takes ten years to learn to wave bye-bye and never does manage to master patty-cake.

Death on a pale horse.

The little people who don't know how to play God and wouldn't want to.

The last of the absolute monarchs

Look with hope to your allies, rather than with hatred to your enemies.

For we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.

When you have only one guy with a shovel, you can't build a dike to hold back the sea.

"Just one?"
"And a blowtorch,"
"Denied."

When the messenger won't tell you what the hell the message is, my trigger finger gets twitchy.

Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?