Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them.

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things work. Children don't ask how the sky is blue. They ask why the sky is blue.

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

Power is neither male or female.

Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.