One story sounds good until another is told
Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.
Real life. . . it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.
The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer. Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume!
Life is short. Eternity is long.
Like most authors, I'm a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access, I would waste countless hours looking up things about myself, writing fake posts about how great I am and arguing with people who don't like my work. It saves me a lot of time and frustration to just stay out of the loop.
Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.
Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.
When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
When times get rough, keep your head up.
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.