“And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.”

“What kind of world were we living in, where the people we trusted to keep us healthy were the ones keeping us sick[...]”

“Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.”

“Now I know that without mirrors we are different, we're not really the same...Maybe they had noticed us looking worriedly at other people's faces, as if we wee trying to see in them what we had become”

“(First Barbarian): whats the difference between a lord and a barbarian?(second Barbarian): As little as a week!”

“Be aware that you can truly help people only by aiding them to become what they are, not what you are. I have heard you say 'If I were you, I would do this, or that.' 'I' am never 'you'--and my solutions may not be yours.”