If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.