It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

The greatest mystery of all is the human heart.

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

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.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?