To my hens, I'm a two-legged giant who throws them corn and keeps stealing their eggs.
There’s a splish of a fish. I see where it was, but not where it is.
The purpose of modern warfare is to slay as many civilians as possible.
The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.
The body is the outermost layer of the mind.
Tan sólo tres o cuatro veces en mis años mozos divisé fugazmente las islas de la Dicha antes de que se esfumaran en la niebla, en las borrascas, entre frentes fríos, vendavales y mareas en contra... L...
Prescient woman called Meronym visited my dwellin’ for a spell, an’ nothin’d be the same, not in my life, not in the Valleys, nay, not never.
Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers.
Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.
Our will to power, our science, and those v. faculties that elevated us from apes, to savages, to modern man, are the same faculties that’ll snuff out Homo sapiens before this century is out!
Only the trombonist played on. That's trombonists for you.
Old Rekohu’s claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, the Moriori’s priestly caste dictated that whosoever spilt a man’s blood killed his own mana - his h...
Okay, so she’s mad as a sack of ferrets. Only I don’t tell her so ’cause I’d like more of that green tea.
Now and then goldfish splish and gleam, like new pennies dropped in water.
Now I seen Mauna Kena from Honokaa b'fore, o'course, but a mountain you're planning on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty, nay.
Nothing attunes you to the beauty of the quotidian like a man who decides not to kill you after all
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
Jealous and sweet, this music was, sobbing and gorgeous, muddy and crystal. But if the right words existed the music wouldn’t need to.
It is a gift from your ancestors and a loan from your descendants.
I pitched my voice for Dirty Harry, but it was more Lisping Baggins.