All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.
Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.
One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.
War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.
One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.
...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.
The body is the outermost layer of the mind.
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
Trees're always a relief, after people.
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.
She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.
Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.
The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.
To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes.
These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.
If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.
I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.
This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.
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