"As with any oft-repeated narrative, those stories about ourselves which have the character of myth, that constitute our kinship in ways of which we are largely unconscious, are subject to subtle distortions.  It is easy to invest too much in the fictions that make life tolerable."

"If you're after getting the honey then you don't go killing all the bees."

"Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed."