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.

The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?

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

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction