Is our blood not the same color? Do we not bleed the same or share each other's burdens? ... What makes you and I so different, Ayden?

I had no tears to shed nor a prayer for the deceased... There is no hope for the hopeless.

You just know something is amiss, when you look at someone and long for something that is not yours or you cannot have. It's an absence--a loss of a heartbeat.

I wish for today and dream of yesterday. If the gods should hold me in their favor, then I shall hope for tomorrow.

Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.

Having friends was weird . . . but in a good way.

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

He that is not jealous is not in love.

I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

I made a lot of mistakes but they were correctable mistakes.

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.

I did want to be the top sniper.

You don't get to make their decisions but you do get to choose the decision makers.

There are plenty of good-looking women out there. Go get them.