No one wants advice - only corroboration.

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

I should have known I am the rain. I am the land and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst sin we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, 'Use it well, use it wisely.' We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training.