Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.

The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

A beginning is the end of something, always.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.