The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice.

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.

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

Blessed are those who do whatever they can wherever they are, for no one is devoid of resources or opportunities.