It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?

Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?

Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.