Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.

Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.

you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears.

It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.

There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of decision. Both have the attraction of certainty. The difficult option is to decide where the line should be drawn and this, surely, is the responsiblity of any civilized and democratic country.

Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.