You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.

The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.

It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.

I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.