Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and yet the change in us was irreversible, and neither of us would even search for a way back. It was impossible. The fire was out. Only a few live coals lurked in the ashes, searing unexpectedly at the incautious touch.

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.