"From what I've seen in politics there are only two things that change the way things are. One is power . . . and the other is blood."

Are there any videogames for smart grown-ups? Anything for people without twitchy trigger fingers?

As murder chimed with the clockworks / you confessed to thumbing fashions

Nanadeus rolled out a sheet of clay while she waited for God to come in out of the void. Now that there was fire, there was much to be done. Systems and cycles and chains of being to set in place. And the oceans, which had turned out to be a little tricky.