To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

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

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.

If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!

When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.