Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

The responsible treatment of this particular Ring of Power is not necessarily to toss it into the Cracks of Doom. But we have to come up with something rather quickly, or what we'll get is the Land of Mordor.

Life's not fair; why should I be?

We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.

Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful.

I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.