The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods. - John Steinbeck

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.

"He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man."

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.