Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.