← Those words that condemn you are so exciting, aren't they? You just lap them up when your name is Oedipus or Antigone. And then it's so simple to poke your eyes out and go out begging on the roads with your children. 🔊✎
← At least the animals are simple and kind and tough. They move forward bravely on the same road, each one pushing the one in front. If one of them drops dead, the others go on, and it doesn't matter how many die, there's always one of each species left to make more and carry on down the same road, just as they always have. 🔊✎
← What a dream for a king, those animals! It would be so simple. 🔊✎
← You'll see, it will become a simple, hard little thing that you can nibble on as you sit in the sun. They'll tell you the opposite because they need your strength and swiftness. Don't listen to them. Don't listen to me either when I give my next speech in front of Eteocles' tomb. It won't be true. Nothing is true except the things you don't say... 🔊✎
← Oh Haemon, our little boy. It's only now I understand how simple it is to live... 🔊✎