“The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.”

“The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world's suffering, you go mad.”

“Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.”

“The thing that truly amazes me about myself is that I’m actually more scared of being embarrassed than anything else.”

“When we can treat all existing persons as human, it will be time enough to think about having more.”

“Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.”