A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire

But each man who worships you sees only what he wishes to see rather than any mystery you may actually embody.

Don’t look for reason where it’s never been practiced.

What was reprehensible in being fearful in the presence of the unknown?

The vitality of children is clean and honest. Their petty shortcomings derive, in ninety-nine out of a hundred instances, from their effete elders’ pettiness. Contagion is a generational fact. But children can develop defenses against their elders’ spiritual scurvy simply because they’re new.

He forgave these Tropemen, then felt contempt for himself for the presumption of extending forgiveness, then forgave again, then cursed his own vanity, forgave once more, condemned his presumption, and at last forgave even himself.

Coercion is the tool of the desperate.

Like all such prophecies, it’s impressive only if not examined too closely.