Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form.

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.