Those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder. - Aldous Huxley

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; what wonder if he loved words and attributed power to them! With fitted, harmonious words the magicians summoned rabbits out of empty hats and spirits from the elements. Their descendants, the literary men, still go on with the process, morticing their verbal formulas together, and, before the power of the finished spell, trembling with delight and awe. Rabbits out of empty hats? No, their spells are more subtly powerful, for they evoke emotions out of empty minds

He took nobody by surprise; there was nobody to take.

Mais je n'en veux pas, du confort. Je veux Dieu, je veux de la poésie, je veux du danger véritable, je veux de la liberté, je veux de la bonté. Je veux du pêché.