It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.

I'm coming for you. I'm coming home, I'm coming to clean

He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

Run, we think, as buildings crumble. Run, as people perish.

It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.