The command to be free is a double bind

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.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

Now I know I'm not broken, For the stars within my soul, Have just built constellations, To keep me feeling whole.

Consider your goal like a war to win and use whatever strategies you know to win

What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

They were Jesuits," she told me. "That means they believe in God but not in terlet paper. You should have seen their underwear. Disgusting.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

I have the feeling that there are things happening that are really very interesting things, if we can somehow find the key that makes them visible.

I'm lucky that I have such a hands on husband.