Ben Dirks

“The fool believes the iniquities of the world are the fault of other men. Gibson’s voice, dry as old manuscript pages, had never been more clear. The truly wise try to change themselves, which is the more difficult and less grand task.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

“Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.”
― G K Chesterton

“It is a mistake to believe we must know a thing to be influenced by it. It is a mistake to believe the thing must even be real.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

“We humans have lived so long in history, I think, we've forgotten that myth is the older, deeper tradition. Perhaps some part of us finds it uncomfortable when those spheres overlap.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Ashes of Man