“Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.”

“The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change.”

“When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.”

“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”

“The assumption that humans exist within an essentially impermanent universe, taken as an operational precept, demands that the intellect become a totally aware balancing instrument.”

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”

“Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.”