A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
