He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.

Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only the losers who have glorious victories.