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.

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

A man without words is a man without thought.

I should have known I am the rain. I am the land and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.