Resherphire: True freedom is not that which is granted by an oppressor. It is a self-evident right, not something that originates from an external force.

Danny: You can be as morally righteous as you want—in a vacuum—but throw in a second entity and you gotta start acting in response to the other.

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.

If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.

The self driving car is not self-aware. It's just driving; it's not thinking.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

Different languages cut the world into different slices.

The process of giving is without limits.

To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.