To the turtle, the concept of "loneliness" is incomprehensible. She always has been alone, and any other social state is unthinkable.

You know, ' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.'P189

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.

I have to reign myself in a lot.

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

Science is not gadgetry.

You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.