What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.

Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.

We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.