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"I have come to appreciate execution’s place in our national life. It’s an heirloom of doubtful value."

“George Crabbe

Give him the darkest inch your shelf allows,
Hide him in lonely garrets, if you will,—
But his hard, human pulse is throbbing still
With the sure strength that fearless truth endows.
In spite of all fine science disavows,
Of his plain excellence and stubborn skill
There yet remains what fashion cannot kill,
Though years have thinned the laurel from his brows.

Whether or not we read him, we can feel
From time to time the vigor of his name
Against us like a finger for the shame
And emptiness of what our souls reveal
In books that are as altars where we kneel
To consecrate the flicker, not the flame."

—Edwin Arlington Robinson

"At the time it was written, there was still a firewall between the rock and classical worlds."

"In what may turn out to be one of the most prescient pieces of sci-fi ever made, the movie posits a superintelligent AI called the Entity, which monkeys with PLC systems making it impossible for humans to trust any information that comes to them digitally." —Jonathan V Last via

"He painted his bedroom walls red vermillion to test if it would make him go mad."