I have to get stronger, harder, and faster. The only way to get hard enough to walk the Apocalypse Road is in the crucible of battle.

Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow.

When it's my time, and the reaper calls my name, there will be no stink of fear on me, and my only wish will be to die with grace, covered in the blood of my enemies.

I'm a man born to blood and pain, and peace would be a killing blow for me.

The nurse snorted, and said. “All men are pigs.” “Not all men.” Jango said. “Some of the men are zombies.

When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity.

It ain’t how hard you are when you’re standing over top of someone that really matters. It’s how hard you are when someone’s standing over top of you that shows what you’re made of.

I guess knowledge alone does not equal wisdom.

God’s purpose for us is that we ought to beconformed to the image of His Son. The world may exert its pressure to deform us, but we are told to “be transformed” [Romans 12:2 NIV].

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

A good investor in this new world knows to always expect the unexpected.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

I heard Pete Seeger records when I was a kid. I saw Bob Dylan when I was about 12. The first song I ever learned to play was a song by Phil Ochs.

What is it about a baby bump that makes people feel it's okay to say things like, 'God! You are big!'

They live ill who expect to live always.