The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.

the sleeper must awaken.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

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