If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

What does a mirror look at?