The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.

[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand.

Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.