The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

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

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

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.

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

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?