If you're going to have 19 children, you should supervise them well.

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

Sometimes when you push someone, you find out who that person really is.

Relationships are never chance events.

There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)

Never tease anything that wants to eat you." Reign of Blood

You cannot travel to the known

No matter how long grave acts tarry in their conceal places, light always move in on them.

Computers are the central access; information processing based on a spiral network, similar to that which is the chaos of existence itself, the analysis of systems, the interlocking lokas.

I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

We see Serbs as our spiritual brothers. And that is what is at the base of our relations today and in the future.