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. Only in the conduct of our action can we find the sense of mastery over the Fates                                                    Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
