Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.

War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.

Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.

There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her here. But no life is a line, and hers was an uneven orbit around a dark star, a moth circling a dead bulb, searching for the light it once held.

Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.

It's stupid. There are maps to show you how to get to the place where you want to be but no maps that show you how to get to the time when you want to be.

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.