A Song of Shadows

the best slaughterhouse is one that doesn’t look like a slaughterhouse at all.

The wager is not a matter of choice. By the act of living, we place the bet.

There were those in the world who were so clever that they regarded simplicity as beneath them. If they had to connect two points, they invariably chose to do so by adding a third, making a triangle.

Pure ideologues don’t pull gold teeth from the mouths of the dead.