“It isn’t easy when life tears away the one person in a million you thought you could always trust.”
Benjamin R. Smith“It's a big spooky place when you're in it alone. It's like you can hear all the whispers of all the voices of all the actors who ever played here. Kind of creepy. Like a church can be creepy when it's empty. You ever been in a church after hours?”
Benjamin R. Smith“On a wing and a prayer." (After being asked how the angels make love in Milton's Paradise Lost).”
Benjamin R. Smith“Some people, when there’s a threat of everything they have being ripped away at a moments notice, they place value on the things they can keep with them, or find anywhere, so they can say ‘these are my things, nobody else can touch them.’ ”
Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas“Don't you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days.”
Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas“The name Atlantis came from an old book Victoria had never read. A lifetime residency in the ASM paradise was rumored to cost anywhere from 15 to 20 million dollars. The rich and powerful lived under the dome because they considered themselves separate and superior. Few of them left the comfort and security of Atlantis. To them the outside world was weak. Second Sector citizens where miscreant dregs of a defunct society. In order to enter the Atlantian dome one first had to be cleared by a resident. Gate security personnel strictly enforced this rule, even when outsiders carried a badge and gun.”
Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas“I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools these mortals be.”
Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas“I see a cathedral, for instance, one that’s stood for centuries and I marvel and I wonder... How many people passed through the doors? What did they pray for? How many wars did they wish to see ended? How many christenings, weddings, and funerals? Same thing with a record, I guess. Who bought it? Did they ever make love while it was playing? How many times did they read the notes in the cover? Did a song on the album change their life? I suppose it's odd to think about things like that.”
Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas“Human’s aren’t concerned with reality, merely their perceptions of it.”
Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas“It isn’t easy when life tears away the one person in a million you thought you could always trust.”
Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas“In some literature, I’ve read, weather is used as a metaphor. The darker and stormier the weather outside the more diabolical the deeds done. When the clouds roll away, however, the rain has washed away all the blood in the streets and the world is clean and new again, as if all the violence and destruction of the storm served a divine purpose.”
Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas