Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

I believe in no final solutions.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure.

The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by proxy, but that was only the begining. Summit meetings for disarmament pursued mutual understanding and a balance of power but were also held to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. The world of the war-or-peace alternative became a world in which war was peace and peace war.