In the future all things will be corporate owned. Nothing will be bought or purchased, all will be licensed. Your home, your car, your boat, your entire life will be out on loan. When you die the only things your children will inherit are your debts.
"The junk merchant doesn’t sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client."
"A Canadian woman’s house is collapsing under the weight of the 350,000 books she rescued from a neighbour who was planning to burn them after her bibliophile husband died."
"[Tolstoy] was acutely aware of the inadequacy of all human means of speaking the truth, but his artistic intuition told him that those means might be composed in such a way as to allow the truth to appear. Against his will, he found that to be an honest man he had to be a poet."
— Richard Pevear (Introduction to the Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translation of War and Peace)