What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.

Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.

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

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

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

... 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.