Revisionary

“Are you a doctor?”

“Better. I’m a librarian.”

Human ignorance has never needed help.

You don’t do what’s right because you know it will work out. You do it because you know it’s right.

The nice thing about people like Jellybean Man was that I knew exactly where I stood. There was no subtlety, no subterfuge or second-guessing. It was a refreshing change from talking to politicians.

“Your fear is all too human. Accept it, but as you walk this path, let your hope guide you.”

“And what if hope guides me off the edge of a cliff?”

“I said let hope guide you. I never said stop paying attention to where you’re going.”

If there ever comes a day when I deliberately embrace ignorance, I’ll have lived one day too long.

History is the world’s most egotistical gossip.

You want to know if it was worth it. I can’t answer that, Isaac. We can know what was, but not what might have been.

“It’s not going to come to that,” I said.

“Nobody ever believes it will,” so the driver. “That’s why it does.”

“Hey, I’m just playing devil’s advocate.”

“Since when did the devil need your help?”

Change is a difficult, often violent process, both for individuals and for whole species. The more rapidly change, the uglier the conflict.

Young Isaac had dreamed of fame.

Young Isaac was an idiot.