Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.
Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
The past is a closed door.
War is what happens when language fails.
In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.