He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts. How deep would you have to dig to find who you started out as?

... but she believed and that was the price of belief. It gave no discounts to friendship (p370)

The moment one is born, the ‘saw starts cutting’. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning.

Our Purpose Is to Be Who We Are

Fallen myths can instill venom.

The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.

If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill!

Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.