War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

Amen, sister, ... All apologies to Tom Cruise.

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.

How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.

If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.