"…as indifferent to the meaning and central absurdity of the situation as swallows in a cathedral."

"There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise."

"“Events,” I say to the Captain, “events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have…"

"Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks."

"Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so man…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."

"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."

"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and…"

"They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free."