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

Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

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

By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.