It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.