My fingers find his. They are warm, pulsing with genetically altered blue blood, powered by mirror matter.

A mix of revenge, sadness and anger funnels into a decision that’s so simple and neat, it could fit in my pocket. I will help Kudzu destroy Aevum. Just like Magnus destroyed my mother.

I smile broadly, feeling as warm and full as the sun.

I can almost see the processes whirrling clunkily in his singularix, as his excited nervous system battled with his logic circuits.

I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor shots.

I feel very confident with the way I look. But I felt just as confident the way I looked before. I've always been confident with who I am.

We moralize among ruins.

Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.

I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.

My fans get enough politics on TV every day. I want them to think for themselves. I don't want them to listen to me.

Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.

I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.