"Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and yo… - Roger Zelazny

The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.

I don't know that I ever wanted greatness on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something - or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown....To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three.