“A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.”

Source: Starship Troopers

Self-Pity (1929)
Source: The Complete Poems

Source: All the Pretty Horses

Account of 7 October 1918.
Diary of Alvin York
Context: God would never be cruel enough to create a cyclone as terrible as that Argonne battle. Only man would ever think of doing an awful thing like that. It looked like "the abomination of desolation" must look like. And all through the long night those big guns flashed and growled just like the lightning and the thunder when it storms in the mountains at home.
And, oh my, we had to pass the wounded. And some of them were on stretchers going back to the dressing stations, and some of them were lying around, moaning and twitching. And the dead were all along the road. And it was wet and cold. And it all made me think of the Bible and the story of the Anti-Christ and Armageddon.
And I'm telling you the little log cabin in Wolf Valley in old Tennessee seemed a long long way off.

After the Ending
Lyrics, The Empyrean (2009)

Part 1: The Creation of the Universe; Opening sentence
On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy

Source: Prometheus Rising (1983), Ch. 14 : The Meta Programming Circuit, p. 224