Judge Holden

"What is life without the prospect of death?"

"All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance."

"What is the nature of this thing that would persist in spite of all?"

"In the end all things tend toward chaos."

"What is written cannot be unwritten."

"Men are made of dust and the dust will have no truck with the reconstruct of that dust to any end of man's choosing."

"What man would not seek to be greater than his maker?"

"There is something godlike in the very bloodletting itself."

"In the last reckoning every man is his own god."

"What is one against the eternal and the unchanging?"

"What is the nature of God? To be neither one nor the other but something between."

"The world is an old whore and she will not be troubled further."

"The world cannot be said to have laws. The right to exemplarity belongs to the judge alone."

"That which exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence."

"If war is not a natural process then what is?"

"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear."

"Every act a man undertakes commits him to a judgment of himself."

"One cannot make the dead animate."

"All things of grace and beauty such as dreams are made on are withheld from those who refuse to fight."

"Drink it. It's good water."

"I know what I am and I know what I came to do."

"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."

"All blood flows to a common sea."

"What man can call his works to account?"

"There is no darkness except in ignorance."

"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"You think when you die you go to heaven. But you don't go to heaven. Nobody goes to heaven."

"War is god."

"I know nothing which I have not forgotten."