The northern soldiers are just men, ” Hal told the men in his command. “And women, ” he amended. “When you cut them, they bleed, just like us.

Even when we win, we lose, Lyss thought.

Even if the job you’re assigned is not to your liking, a Matelon will see it done.

The real acts of a real devil you know have been made acceptable by the fictitious actions of a nonexistent devil that you do not know.

Reality is a construct of the neurons.

Nothing about you, my dear, has ever been lost on me.

There is absolutely nothing inferior about you, because we were all created by the same God in His own image.

The meaning of life is simply the meaning we give to it.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

If it ain't fun don't do it.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.