We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

I cry for those not yet dead.

His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.