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

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time.

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.

You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.

But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.