Acheron. When it absolutely, positively must be destroyed overnight.
We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map. . . . A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there. . . and still on your feet.
Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action,. . . Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.
He was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve if their daughter became serious with someone like him.
The purpose of apology is to extend ourselves in such a way that relationships become deeper, and life becomes richer and more human in the process.
I chased money, pretended to be someone else to get it. It got easier the longer I did it. . . but that's the trap, see? When the deadness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.