The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.

It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?

Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

Time is the enemy of identity

Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.