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“Some urges are more immediate than fear,” Boreas replied.
“Suits me. I’d rather be a nothing at the center of everything than a puffed-up somebody at the edge of it all.”
Love, as the poets so often painted it, was just bald lust wearing a pompous wig. He believed true love was more like an education: It was deep and subtle and never complete.
“I am upset because we have pooled our human genius into the building of an elaborate Tower and have filled it up with the same tyrants that have plagued our race since we crawled from the sea. Why does our innovation never extend to our conscience?”
“We have society, but we are alone. We have light, but we have no sun. The Tower sucks our lives and gives us only a little diversion and a little death. Do not accept a little death! Demand a great, booming demise!”
The truth, when finally told, will often sound strange, while a lie is so often familiar.
“But then, a man loathes most what he reviles in himself.”
It is easier to accept who you’ve become than to recollect who you were.
“Powerful men fail just as much, if not more often, than the failures. The exceptional thing is that they admit it; they take and hold up their failures. They claim their disappointments; they move on!”
