"All systems are evil. All governments are evil. Not just a trifle evil. Monstrously evil."

""If you want me to help you destroy a government, I'm here to serve. But as for Universal Justice--" He laughed."

"The trees are dead. The days are an arrow in a dead man's chest."

"Something is coming, strange as spring. I am afraid."

"It is I," I say. "The Destroyer."

"Tedium is the worst pain."

"And so begins the twelfth year of my idiotic war. The pain of it! The stupidity!"

"(Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.)"

"I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our h…"

"(O hear me, rocks and trees, loud waterfalls! You imagine I tell you these thing just to hear myself speak? A little …"