The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.

The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way and say, 'this is it.' Always there will be someone who can tell it differently depending on where they are standing ... this is the way I think the world's stories should be told: from many different perspectives.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.