We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.

Madness, and then illumination.

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.