Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.

We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.