Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

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

I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.