Hope Is A Slow Business.

A Man Does Not Make His Destiny: He Accepts It Or Denies It.

Civilized Man Says: I Am Self, I Am Master, All The Rest Is Other--outside, Below, Underneath, Subservient. I Own, I Use, I Explore, I Exploit, I Control. What I Do Is What Matters. What I Want Is What Matter Is For. I Am That I Am, And The Rest Is Women & Wilderness, To Be Used As I See Fit.

Injustice Makes The Rules, And Courage Breaks Them.

Translation Is Entirely Mysterious. Increasingly I Have Felt That The Art Of Writing Is Itself Translating, Or More Like Translating Than It Is Like Anything Else

Most Civilisations, Perhaps, Look Shinier In General Terms And From Several Light-years Away.