The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes.

In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.