You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

I am not the river I am the net.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.