None of us know our real names.

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.

Shadows can only exist where there is light.

I confess that I have lived, so I confess that I have sinned.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

Why can't life be easy, why can't love be just wonderful, why can't math be counting 1, 2, 3 Why it can't be you and me..?

What I don’t understand about your type is that you want to emulate the other side. You kick up such a commotion about being different, and all you want is to be the same.

Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.