If untruths become part of our language—untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech—then each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning of any sentence....

It was only in the middle—between the immense and the minute—that sadness seemed to exist.

Morality doesn’t exist in space, only in the spaces between people.

When you look at it objectively, that’s what most colonists do—they land then find a way of wiping out their competition. In America is was blankets covered with smallpox and in Australia it was permits...

The secrets in his brain were like some mesmerizing drug to me.

A war that includes four-year-olds with AK 47s is a war that no one can win — been if some men… go home victorious.