If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

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.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

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.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.