As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the standard trajectory.

It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life.

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.

America loves to pray, God knows. America prays and prays and prays, it is the land of unchained prayer, and all this ceremonial praying is hard on Billy.

Americans are children who must go somewhere else to grow up, and sometimes die.

I like to kill my enemies and listen to the lamentations of their women

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Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.

It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.

Terror is trump. Common, brutal suppression methods are considered as sanctified laws. "Old Fighters" are holy ones. From the district leader upwards there are only Gods!

Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.

Assume nothing, question everything.

I fiercely protect my privacy. I just don't think it's everyone's business to know every little detail about my life. That's just the way I've handled myself.

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

Any of the yoga poses could be substituted in this analogy. How you practice is much more meaningful than what yoga moves you can or cannot do.