“The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.”  J. Saunders Redding 

“Christopher Nolan took a story of war and magic and monsters and homecoming, and he turned it into a story where civilization collapses when people fail to welcome the stranger. He took a story where people honor strangers lest they entertain the gods in disguise, and gently suggests that perhaps every person is worthy of welcome and guest-friendship. He took a story where the gods manipulate everything people do, and gently suggests that people should take some fucking responsibility for their own actions, and along the way shows us what happens when someone betrays the god he claims to worship”  --Leah Schnelbach, “The Eyes of Athena and the Disenchanted World of The Odyssey,” REACTOR, July 22, 2026, https://reactormag.com/the-odyssey-movie-review

“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark-pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time - proof that humans can work magic.”  --Carl Sagan 

"The aliens are already here. They are algorithms and they landed more than twenty years ago."  --Mark Stahlman

“Fidel Castro was a billionaire. Putin is a billionaire. The leaders of communist regimes are always rich. They steal and rob from those they govern.”  --Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)

(Trump made over $2 billion in 2025 alone, while in office.)