Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

Everything means nothing that is the only truth.

Time is the enemy of identity

Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.