Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

Jessica stopped beside him, said: 'What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.' He spoke mechanically: 'If only adults could relax like that.' 'Yes.' 'Where do we lose it?' he murmured. 'We do, indeed, lose something,' she said.

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.