Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
A human being can stand any amount of pain.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers. No servant or disciple can dress the wound. You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.