I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.

The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.

Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to the dreamer that the world of his longing made real is no longer that world at all.

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