In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.

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.

You will find it hard to hear from God until you let go your rights and your agenda.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

"You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" he was saying. "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!"

Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs and suffer such indignities and hardships.