History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel such tenderness when I look at you that I want to stand between you and all the world: and yet also to lift you up and carry you above the strong currents of life; and at the same time, I would be glad to stand always like this, at a distance, watching you, the beauty of you.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.