The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.

It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them.

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

It's a god-eat-god world.

He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.