....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

For no change comes calmly over the world.

....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.