When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away childish things because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things!

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know where we are. We are in the deep cack. It couldn't be worse if it was raining arseholes. Any questions?

People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.

Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.