Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?

This storm you talk of . . .t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before. There will be no safety by arms, no help from authority, no answer in science. It will rage till every flower of culture is trampled, and all human things are leveled in a vast chaos.

Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?

There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.