What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will.

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex

I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts

I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.