The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body's love, but beyond that they fail clumsily. My love flowed out to her, hers back to me. Mine stroked and soothed. Hers caressed. The distance - and the difference - between us dwindled and vanished. We could meet, mingle, and blend. Neither one of us existed any more; for a time there was a single being that was both. There was escape from the solitary cell; a brief symbiosis, sharing all the word.

There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.