When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.

Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only in a culture of clarification, which is now becoming harder and harder to detect with the naked eye.

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

God bless... God damn.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?