all those layers of silence upon silence

When you just can’t stop talking about him…

…even when you are all alone.

“Quiet, composed, graceful, discipline. These are the qualities we see in the good ones. These are the qualities we see in Mulan.”

It may help to understand human affairs to know that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

Everyone has free will, including the right to murder! Just think of it as a microcosm of the universe.

The truth doesn’t care about our needs or wants. It doesn’t care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions. It will lie in wait for all time. And this, at last, is the gift of Chernobyl. Where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask… What is the cost of lies?