Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

You're a Good Little Slave

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

Few things worth having can be got easily.

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me.

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!

Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people.

He was a professional athlete and coach, a Ferrari who lived his life in the fast lane. She was a girl-next-door kind of girl, closer to a golf cart than a sports car.

Still yourself to steel yourself.

Most sorts of diversion in men children and other animals are in imitation of fighting.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

Some people fast, some people go on a cruise or visit a day spa. I get out in the woods with a rifle or a bow. That's my release.

I can be you hero baby. I can kiss away the pain. I will stand by you forever. You can take my breath away

I've sacrificed lots of aspects of my personal life to do what I do.