“Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.”

“. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.”

“There is something ineluctably male about coalitional aggression - men bonding with men to engage in aggression against other men,”

“What I can see so far is that life consists of good and evil, black and white. And everything in between is a struggle for dominating the other. Life is a struggle.And I hate that it all ends with nothingness. That one day, you simply aren’t here anymore. No more smiles, no more tears, no more anything.”

“Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.”

“We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.”