I only want power so I can get books.

What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

You cannot rationalize what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called truthization. There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can.

There is light in the world, and it is us!