If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.

Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?

Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats.