The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
And unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was not just damaged but totally destroyed.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
When you're a kid growing up and you think you're gay you know that you're different you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.
Society being codified by man decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways.
I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre which at one time offered great musical opportunities.
I have seen the science I worshiped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder or at least my biggest blunder in science.