OH, CLEVER

Please, God, let me die stupid! I know I'm getting smart lately, but let me stay the course.

• Jason Ellis, Hawk vs Wolf (EP 184)

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

• Roy Batty, Blade Runner

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

• William Gibson, Count Zero