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

“Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.”

“If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.”

“- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters.-Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.”

“The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.”

“How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?”

“Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?”