You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.

I am not the river I am the net.

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.