If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name’s the mother
of the ten thousand things.

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."

"It might to keep it open.

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more.