War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.

Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.

Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.

Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?