I just want to be able to be creative.
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
Was there ever a war where only one side bled?
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.
Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.
. . . morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.
I went to see the Beatles last month. . . And I heard 20,000 girls screaming together at the Beatles. . . and I couldn't hear what they were screaming, either. . . But you don't have to. . . They're screaming Me! Me! Me! Me!. . . I'm Me!. . . That's the cry of the ego, and that's the cry of this rally!. . . Me! Me! Me! Me!. . . And that's why wars get fought. . . ego. . . because enough people want to scream Pay attention to Me. . . Yep, you're playing their game.
Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.