Kim Stanley Robinson Men Quotations

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three hundred thousand students; that meant at least one hundred fifty thousand more nubile young women than demographics would ordinarily suggest. Maybe that was why young men stayed in Boston when their college years were over, maybe that explained why they were so intellectually hyperactive, so frustrated, so alcoholic, such terrible drivers.

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.