...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

Good necessitates evil.

Ships have feelings.

If that’s what you’re willing to do for someone you hate, what would you do for someone you love?

Libraries are a tremendous and valuable resource, and I'm note sure it's possible to have too many of them.

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

Hers is a timeless life weaving through other longer lives like a flash of lightning in a clouded evening sky.

Do you know the difference between an error and a mistake, Ensign?" 'No, sir.' "Anyone can make an error, Ensign. But that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.

There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.

Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves.

Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic.