Judge Holden

"The universe is a cyclopean mechanism of blood and iron."

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

"The world is everything that is the case."

"That which brings light must endure burning."

"The earth did not move. It never moves."

"All order is imposed."

"Death is the condition of existence."

"Knowledge is a burden and an inheritance."

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

"You think you are invulnerable but you are not."

"Men are born for games. Nothing else."

"I have no enemies."

"In the neume of the world shall be no place for him at all in the end."

"The world is everything that is the case."

"That man who sees but a few miles of the earth, how he clings to those few miles."

"The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible."

"What moves men to courage is mystery."

"The universe is a scrawl upon the dark."

"The judge laughed. That which is dark will remain dark."

"What could be more hollow than a man's belief in his own self."

"The world is a mask and behind it lies the abyss."

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

"In the darkness all order is reversed. The darkness is absolute. It is the matrix and the Godhead and the glory of worlds."

"Men are made of the dust of the world, do you understand? There is nothing else. They inhale the world, and it becomes them."

"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."

"The judge smiled. He made a small gesture with his cigar. The flesh was better than the stone."

"The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible."

"What is life? It is light and warmth and motion. It is entropy. It is decay."

"Nothing is offered that is not wanted. And desire is the lodestone."

"The world runs on in time like an old clock, and we are the makers of it."