When you treat a rational autonomous creature as though he’s a mere beast, what does that make you? - Robert Silverberg

What counts is what’s happening inside him, his own artistic fulfillment. If he can blow their skulls, that’s a bonus. But this is ecstasy. The whole universe is vibrating around him. A gigantic solo. God himself must have felt this way when he got to work on the first day.

Knowledge never injures the soul. It only purges that which encrusts and saps the soul.

So it is with all the great leaders: the commodity they have to sell is personality. Mere ideas can be left to lesser men.