A voice hissed: “He sheds tears!” It was taken around the ring “Usal gives moisture to the dead!” He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers.
Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don’t let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.
Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.
You don’t write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you’re really doing it, that’s all you’re doing: writing.
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.
Madness in method, that’s genius.
A killer with the manners of a rabbit – this is the most dangerous kind.
They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.
In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It’s be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.
Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!
But it’s well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
What you cannot control, you must accept.
If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.
You’ve heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There’s an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.
Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.
The real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.