Most distinguishable about the idiot, Hedge noted, was their fear of that which was different. Those who feared difference always made a point of finding difference in others in order to feel more secure in...

Doubt was a giant-sized beast with heavy boots that pounded through the cities of the mind, sparking an occasional life only so Hope could rise again for a splendid recrushing. Doubt reveled in nothing more...

Hope was always creating pleasantly ideological, and therefore impossible things.

That was the mark of genuine beauty. Not being beautiful oneself, but making everything around them beautiful.

Evil became invisible when it was everywhere. Like air, everyone forgot it was there until it was blowing hard enough to knock off their hat or muss up their hair.

For all their simplicity, humans could be remarkably perceptive, though they didn’t know it most of the time, and their ability to thrust straight through deception and see to the heart of truth was often...