Gomst's mouth framed a 'no', but every other muscle in him said 'yes'. You'd think priests would be better liars, what with their jobs and all.

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.

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

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.

Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

Tell me, tutor, ' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.

War, my friends, is a thing of beauty.

It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears.

I can help you, Jorge. I can give you back your self. I can give you your will.' He held out his hand, palm open. 'Free will has to be taken, ' I said.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

The thing about coming back from the dead was that your life went on.

The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.

The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that guarantees that people can bear arms to protect themselves.

Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.

The first world we find ourselves in is a family that is not of our choosing.

Everything is worth more when you have to earn it.

The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.

There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.