In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

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.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

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

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

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.

The night darkens, the stars unfriendly, the cold a knife upon her neck - but Nella waits, until she can no longer difference between Johannes and the darkness that carries him away.

Mind share before market share.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

America has the greatest people on earth in our military, but they don't have the right equipment and their equipment is old.

Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something.

No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to God.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.