Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

“Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!”

“The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.”

“Well, you seem to have embraced Union propaganda wholeheartedly, Sonmi-451.And …”

“an' that cold hand o' wind was Old Georgie's hand, yay, the devil what was stan…”