Once you get a brother, you don’t give him up easy.

Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up