The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

The molecules that mediate pain are ancient, revealing how deeply rooted this sensation is in evolution.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.