Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.

clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.

Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.

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.

An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.