Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

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.

In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

The successful writer listens to himself.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.