Jou redding en jou ondergang is een dieselfde ding.

Focusing on the details of life takes the focus from the truths of life

What sobriety conceals, drunkenness reveals.

After all, your head only had so much room in it. No surprise if it overflowed once in a while with little bits of sparkle and electrical fizz.

I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.

...the first sign of civilization is always trash.