Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.

Remember, though, that you are the king's observer, not the king's champion.

...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field

You may encounter many disappointments. Be strong. Tell yourself, “I am good enough, I will try again.

Convert your fans into your customers by adding value to what you do.

Water is happy when it falls

If you want to know what an ultimate goal would be, of course it would be utter peace.

If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it.

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

Nothing's dangerous if you know what you're doing.

I think.' she said, 'that sometimes we don't feel the things that we are. But others can feel them.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.