I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

An equation is a prophecy that always comes true.

I am freedom and I will eat your heart

Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.

Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.