The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel

We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand

outside things and run them, that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one’s function in the sociopolitical whole.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new