All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?

... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights", the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Reality is the page. Life is the word.

Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.