If you can't stand with our troops stand in front of them

The more you realize that war criminals might be ordinary people, the more afraid you become.

--Slavenka Drakulić


But you had taken on a greater, and more harmful, illusion. The illusion of control. That A could do B. But that was false. Completely. No one can do. Things only happen, A and B are unreal, are names for parts that ought to be inseparable...

--Gravity's Rainbow


Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

--Charles Darwin






Lists are what you write when you think you've got everything in your head but you've started becoming suspicious of what that could possibly mean.

--Mónica de la Torre, "Public Domain"