What is government but theft by consent?

Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.

Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.

So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.

This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated

There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.