I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.

One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It’s just an awful lot of 'us.'

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then? The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief? The Door would still be there, even if the Door was not.

He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.