Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.