A person’s voice can have such a powerful experience on the listener, very different from looking at the words on the page.

And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.

For no matter what the world, men who deal in headwear are men to be trusted above any other.

But I killed you,” Alyss said. “Did you?” Red turned to The Cat. “Why wasn’t I informed?

I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?"

He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.

I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.

Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.

I'm stronger than you are, Redd.

Most of life is unbearable. It’s unbearable but we bear it

You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.

I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.

The war keeps taking pieces of me anyway. Makes the rest of me harder to hit.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

If you want a weak man, you might as well marry a woman.

Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.

I kept doing my own thing, working out with weights, wrestling, and doing other spots until I graduated from high school. Then I made a conscious decision to pursue MMA seriously and full time.

love all the people you can. The sufferings from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness.