The desire for social equality is not unmixed with a certain eagerness to be rid of the bother of pity.                              Jean Rostand
Intelligence would seem to exist primarily as a way to outrun natural selection     Samuel R. Delany, 1995
Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens, and wall-flowers need ruin to make them grow. Â Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun
…Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.Â