“First Principle: Have a point and make it by means of the best word.”

“Feminism means having a choice. And feminism doesn't care which choices you make, either. Just that you have them. The point has never been to establish some principled refusal to give yourself to another human being. The point is to make sure you can give yourself--or not give yourself--of your free will.”

“The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.”

“To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.”

“To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”

“I might have principles, but that doesn't mean I want to shop there”