What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.