It Is Impossible To Discourage The Real

There Are So Many People In The World Who Are Eager To Do For You Things That You Do Not Wish Done, Provided Only That You Will Do For Them Things That You Don't Wish To Do.

I Think Perhaps We Want A More Conscious Life. We're Tired Of Drudging And Sleeping And Dying. We're Tired Of Seeing Just A Few People Able To Be Individualists. We're Tired Of Always Deferring Hope Till The Next Generation. We're Tired Of Hearing Politicians And Priests And Cautious Reformers... Coax Us, 'be Calm! Be Patient! Wait! We Have The Plans For A Utopia Already Made; Just Wiser Than You.' For Ten Thousand Years They've Said That. We Want Our Utopia Now — And We're Going To Try Our Hands At It.

We'd Get Sick On Too Many Cookies, But Ever So Much Sicker On No Cookies At All.

It's One Of Our Favorite American Myths That Broad Plains Necessarily Make Broad Minds, And High Mountains Make High Purpose.

Under A Tyranny, Most Friends Are A Liability. One Quarter Of Them Turn "reasonable" And Become Your Enemies, One Quarter Are Afraid To Speak, And One Quarter Are Killed And You Die With Them. But The Blessed Final Quarter Keep You Alive.