“The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.”

“Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.”

“Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.”

“Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.”

“Love should never mean having to live in fear.”

“The power of love is that it sees all people.”

“[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.”

“If their social institutions were abhorrent, their unwritten constitution bordered upon the absurd. The absolutist monarchs of the ancient kingdoms of Amara looked with detestation at the Shazarian...”

“Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.”

“There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.”

“Maybe if I had gone on like that I could have stopped myself in time. Maybe at that point I still had it in me to come through.”

“I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things you never dared, all the things you dream about, all the things you were curious about and then forgot because you knew y...”

“Guns are not the problem. The species is the problem.”

“This is not a book about race, though the disproportionate number of those who fell that day were black, and certain racial themes are unavoidable. It is not a book that sets out to compare the Uni...”

“1. So, disturbed kids are taking guns to school and killing teachers and classmates. We better make sure kids cant get guns.2. So, disturbed kids are taking guns to school and killing teachers and ...”