Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they've chosen, further than they might want to go.

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

You're a Good Little Slave

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.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

Few things worth having can be got easily.

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me.

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

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

If you think you know what your purpose is, but can never seem to gain satisfaction from it, then it’s probably not the purpose you’re destined for.

Life will succeed life, as we know it.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.

Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!

God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence.

If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.

I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action.

Smaller stuff tends to get shared more frequently.