Time travel would give humanity the ability to alter the past and prune the tree of all possible futures of those branches that had been infected by evil

Nay, he needs a woman, not a girl. And Laoghaire will be a girl when she’s fifty.

Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.

Simply put: love does.

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance.

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian.

The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Shall we gather at the river, Where bright angel feet have trod; With its crystal tide for ever, Flowing by the throne of God?

Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.