“There webs were spread of more than common size,
And half-starved spiders prey’d on half-starved flies.”

“There's a city, draped in net
Fisherman net
And in the half light, in the half light
It looks like every tower
Is covered in webs
Moving and glistening and rocking
It's babies in rhythm
As the spider of time is climbing
Over the ruins.”

“The war which is coming
Is not the first one. There were
Other wars before it.
When the last one came to an end
There were conquerors and conquered.
Among the conquered the common people
Starved. Among the conquerors
The common people starved too.”

“Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.”

“The great problems of the world - social, political, economic and theological - do not concern me in the slightest…If all the Armenians were to be killed tomorrow and if half of Russia were to starve to death the day after, it would not matter to me in the least. What concerns me alone is myself and the interests of a few close friends.”

“More than half of all our biblical commentaries between 650 and 850 were written by Irishmen.”

“Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.”

“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”

“The Queen must surely be proud of such heroic men as the Police and Irish soldiers as It takes eight or eleven of the biggest mud crushers in Melbourne to take one poor little half starved larrakin to a watch house. I have seen as many as eleven, big & ugly enough to lift Mount Macedon out of a crab hole more like the species of a baboon or Guerilla than a man.”

“Twilight remained, a fairy half-light in which all things looked much more charming than they really were.”