Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads

Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs.

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.

I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)

When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!

I’ll never forget the club or him I don’t see Arsenal without Arsene Wenger