I consider how you don't get to choose whom you're attracted to, you only get to wonder about it retrospectively.
The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.
We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.
The weak are meat the strong do eat.
Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.
We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.
Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.
