Do ants get headaches?

What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be.

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.

Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.

The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.

Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?