This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.

You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.

I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and more precious.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.