Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

What we need is equality without conformity.

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

The saddest line you scraped in your diary was not that you cried but those moments when we both shared smile.

Real men don't lift weights, they lift women.

The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever.

There lived great souls in history.

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide.

I mean it’s purposeful, even if we don’t realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave the behind….

Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye.

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.