Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.

People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.

Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.

Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.