“I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.”

“I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.”

“Not craftsmen, my lord" he said. "I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible”

“And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor, I don't know who is.”

“Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”

“And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.”

“She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.”