Diana Sima

“They were going to look at war, the red
animal--war, the blood-swollen god.”
― Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

“When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.”
― Stephen Crane, Open Boat

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth