My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.

If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.

As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.