The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it, either. Government office should be received like a child’s Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.

I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.

Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these things.” "Sacked! A miscarriage of justice. You ought to be shot.

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.