It’s always better to sit on your dignity in private than to stand on it in public.

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

No man should go to Valhalla with brothel rash.

Death was kind.” He drew a sharp breath. “But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child.

A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that’s gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change.

When you become a father, it changes you." Snorri spoke towards the fire’s glow. "You see the world in new ways. Those who are not changed were not properly men to begin with.

Out here you need to live in the moments. Watch the world. You're a young man, Jal, a child who's refused to grow up. Do it now, or you'll die a young man.

Men who’ve made choices always feel they own their destiny. Few ever think to ask who shaped and offered up those choices. Who dangles the carrot they think they’ve chosen to follow.

To err is human, to forgive is divine... but I’m only a cardinal and cardinals are human, so rather than forgiving you I’m going to err towards beating you with this stick.

Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house.

What’s gotten into you?” he wondered, blinking in sudden frustration.“Not you, that’s for a certainty.

It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.

All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.

The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager.

I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.

I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They'd eaten each other.

A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.

True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.