Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Give me a lamp so I can find the day.