I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.