The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?

The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.

How can justice fall victim, ever, to what is right?

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

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

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't.