Rage is never blind. Rage is uniquely focused.
Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.
Only a fool leaves anything of importance to chance.
One must always name a weapon. You cannot trust that which you cannot call by name.
One carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.
Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness…
Never fly commercial. That’s the moral of this story.
Looking back on one’s life, you see that love was the answer to everything.
Life is madness. And so is love.
Knowing was the worst part. Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person—it only adds the burden of panic.
It is the concern of every immigrant that their offspring will grow to embrace their adoptive culture at the expense of their natural heritage.
It is not faith that distinguishes our real leaders. It is doubt. Their ability to overcome it.