Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?

That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world. They gyre and fall; they see through everything, and are blind.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.