#wordswereherweapon

Who but the insane would ever be at peace?  What person who has enjoyed life could possibly thing one is enough?  Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite - a failure of not just imagination but of simple vision.

It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take.  It is their past as well; their roots and their identity.

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape.

To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish.  You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

Let me tell you.  The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or a breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.