Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely." "I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.