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

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.

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.

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.

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.

If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails why should one condemn oneself to live day in day out with people one does not like and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the independence of the judicial system, which is one of the pillars of maintaining a democratic system.

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

I think the most important thing in skiing is you have to be having fun. If you're having fun, then everything else will come easy to you.

WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing