The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.

You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.

That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third.

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.

I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.

Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.