“This was what it was. The ruin of it. The depth of it. Have it once and you can have it again. That’s the riddle. That’s the truth.”

“You have to plant doubt […] It’s like planting a seed that takes time to germinate. It might look like nothing is happening, but then suddenly the doubt will flower into some kind of action […] Patience is what is needed. People need to hear the truth, not just once but again and again. That’s what the politics of change is all about, patience and repetition, until the truth sinks in.”

“-Do you see that?
-Yeah, what is it?
-That’s the truth.
-How can you tell it’s the truth?
-Because it’s ugly.”

“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s aconspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. Butwhen you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networksare in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a farmore depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shootthe bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are reallyin business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.”

“This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.”

“Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that’s why they write symphonies..”