Even if the job you’re assigned is not to your liking, a Matelon will see it done.

The northern soldiers are just men, ” Hal told the men in his command. “And women, ” he amended. “When you cut them, they bleed, just like us.

Even when we win, we lose, Lyss thought.

Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.

... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

A lot of things look cooler in slow motion. Eating isn't one of them.

I tossed off a mention of the pirates early on. And they became integral to the backstory. Sometimes now I imagine them in the woods. They scare me. All men. Dirty and wearing red.

Our country deserves no less, because all of the other issues we want to deal with depend upon us being secure and strong.

Leaders must (1) define the business of the business, (2) create a winning strategy, (3) communicate persuasively, (4) behave with integrity, (5) respect others, and (6) act.

Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.