Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ''Science Fiction'' and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
