Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.

A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.