“One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.”
“Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.”
“We always assumed the aliens would have to at least be alive to invade. Not even H.G. Wells expected an invasion of ghosts.”
“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”
“…the association of two, or more, apparently alien elements on a plane alien to both is the most potent ignition of poetry.”
“one of the greatest lessons that comes from meditation is that a relaxed curiosity about life and sleepwalking through it are two radically different choices”