The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of.

The worst losses come at night.

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage.