The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense...

Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy

I'm going to move to Theory someday. Everything works there.

This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.

It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.

The bureaucrat fell from the sky.

Perfection is death, ' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it?

So that, logically, in the brief time allotted to us, we should be as kind to one another as is humanly possible and face the harsh facts of reality without fear or flinching.

The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box.

Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.

Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

You can't make an egg without frying an egg

War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.