Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.

I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.

Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.

Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.

You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a trial of souls, not the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the iron bones of the earth meet the hollow bones of men and break them.

Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?

Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.