I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.

Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.

...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.