In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club or a whip. It is only necessary to wish for your own subjection, and to delight in the subjection of others.

Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.