The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.

We want to fight.”“And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that’s never going to happen, ” I said blithely.

I suggest you leave now, or you’ll be tied down and gagged until the end of this meeting.”“Tie us down?”“And gag you, ” Joseph cheerfully reminded them.

What would you suggest?” one of the Italian officials asked.“We do have a highly-advanced biological device called the Illuminator, ” Joseph chimed in

I’m not above using unsavory beings to kick the Gods’ asses, but the Phantoms are too unpredictable for my taste, ” I said.

If this is where you ask me to run around in my birthday suit, I’m not entirely comfortable with that, ” I said, smirking.

Oh yes. You’ve done a marvelous job of succeeding at failure.

Don’t rush

I am alive because I am breathing, and I am breathing because God is great and merciful.

He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.

The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

There is no such thing as one Islam. The Koran is ambiguous and Islam is not a monolithic entity.