Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement." It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live.

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.