23 Quotes by Tom B. Night

I used to wish I’d have nightmares—what a pleasure it would have been to wake up. If all your dreams are terrifying, reality actually becomes something to look forward to.

There's a brute fact at the end of every chain of causality. Some are just harder to accept than others. If you keep asking 'why' in any domain you eventually arrive at something that just seems to be true about reality, at least insofar as we understand it.

...life is a war we all lose in the end, but every day is a battle, and you can sure as hell win some of those.

But the surest way to live a worthwhile, meaningful life was to have already done so, those moments etched forever into the fabric of spacetime.

He'd been younger then, when sex meant both nothing and everything.

The story of Noah’s Ark, if you’re familiar, left out the part where the animal kingdom is repopulated entirely through rampant incest.

Theoretically the only tool you really needed to survive was a gun; everything else could be taken from others who lacked one.

The electrified gas creating these vibrant displays was a distinct and oft-forgotten fourth phase of matter—plasma—that comprised more of the universe than all but matter's fifth phase: dark.

Would intelligent life evolve again on this planet, and if so would it have the means—like opposable thumbs or a way to store knowledge outside of brains—to build technology? Dolphins could have lived for eternity and never developed the capability to annihilate their species or the world, much less colonize another.