Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."

It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.