One of my problems with terrorism is that it's self-evidently bad. The main thing that makes it complicated is the fact that it works. When you go at it with a moral hammer, it's really, really bad. It's so bad you wouldn't believe it because you don't accomplish anything. I think the one thing terrorists themselves are vulnerable to is mockery. It's an excellent weapon.

Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .

...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.

In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go to hell; the idea of countries and the idea of sons triumph for eternity.

it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.

My own apathy is bone chilling.