If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

Information is power. --Humfrey

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

Obviously it could be, because it was.

And so I was left with a mantra, a sort of haiku version of our relationship: I don’t regret one day I spent with him, nor did I leave a moment too soon.

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

I am happy to have played a match and break the rhythm of daily training.

Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.

Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.

If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

I find a very guilty pleasure in dark themes and vibes, and finding where the transcending nature of awareness meets this darkness.

The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.