If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

Everything means something.

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...