Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and him; we approach him through the mediating priest and attenuate and enclose him through the sacraments. It is for our own safety: to trap him within confines which render him safe.

The inanity of her remark infuriated him. 'Good grief don't you understand Janet? At this point I'm thoroughly delusional. I'm as mentally ill as it's possible to be. It's incredible that I can communicate with you at all. It's a credit to my ego-strength that I'm not at this point totally autistic.

I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.

In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.