“War is more than battles, and battles are more than violence.”

“The universe holds a destiny in store for people who will not build their own, but they seldom like it.”

“Stories shape the world.”

“If you would see a man's heart, knock him down. Then observe how he rises. If you would see his soul, do it a thousand times more.”

“There is wisdom out there that cant be relayed in musings or sage advice. Like the complexity of life itself, it simply wont condense. It can only be shown in its entirety. It takes a story.”

“The weight of history swings on choices. To understand why people make the choices they do is to understand the whole of history and most of the future.”

“Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its na...”

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

“Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”

“Is that which science calls the psyche not merely a question-mark arbitrarily confined within the skull, but rather a door that opens upon the human world from a world beyond, now and again allowin...”

“I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...”

“Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.”