Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.

The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.