"I’ve watched human beings fool around with love. Love of self mostly, but also love of place, work, ideas; love of fr…"

"One would think that the mere shortness of life would be a reminder that to destroy beauty is to destroy one’s own se…"

"One doesn’t look for the small promises of an ethical revolution in the headlines: the ocean’s currents do not derive…"

"They never seemed to want to teach her anything except how to be like everybody else. When she finished—bright, you k…"

"Maybe the schools have come to regard education as a sort of by-product, something it would be nice to have if it isn…"

"“And where is your guarantee against war in that, Miles?” “There can’t be any except in human ethical maturity. A sen…"

"In politics, wishful thinking just gives the wolves a license to howl."

"A justifiable expense, Drozma, if only to let Angelo discover the woods—at any rate I have been in most of the temple…"

"In intelligent life, human or Martian, maybe there has always been a genuine division between those who honor the ind…"

"Patience is a narcotic for the weak."