Love is our response to our highest values.

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and have to question yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself.

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man’s freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.