Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us... Save my little girl...

Autumn began to run. She felt an icy terror flood through her. He must have been waiting for her. He’d followed her all the way here. To this open, empty place. He knows where I live.

There was no sign of her daughter, no sign of a small body crumpled by the railway.

it wasn’t until the train went past that she saw the small body lying in the long grass by the side of the wood.

In the fleeting light she saw the meadow, dotted with stunted hawthorns, their twisted limbs dense with red berries, and then a shape: achingly familiar, child-sized, shockingly still.

Only one small, pale spot on her cheek was visible where her skin, free of blood, gleamed, as polished as bone.

And even then, it might not have been too awful, but his head snapped back and he hit a rock, breaking like a blunt molar from the ground.

The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

We are not at war (except with our own demons).

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

Men who define themselves as breadwinners are going to have to leave the traditional iconography of masculinity behind if they want to be breadwinners.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

You know, I'm not very good at magic - I can only do half of a trick. Yes - I'm a member of the Magic Semi-circle.