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

The earth's a door if you press your ear against it.

Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the smoke, and prepares to vacate the neighborhood, just like Ayrs and Jocasta. My worry is that the next war will be so big, nowhere with a decent restaurant will be left untouched.

Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.