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.

The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.

I am not the river I am the net.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.