... You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.

Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I’ve always wished to make a god.

Death is easy when you've already tried to find it.

You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.

Freedom costs too much

In the densest places of man, humanity most easily breaks down

Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.

Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?""Power.""Power isn't real. It's just a word.

The foolish families worry over blood. I care nothing for purity of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. What a man can do to other men, women.

There is a festival where we wear the faces of demons to ward evil spirits from our dead in the vale. Sometimes wefail.

Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.

Excuse me, I must go and putt

The pulse of New York City can be found on the bent elbows of the patrons in Pete's Tavern.

My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

You don't need easy, you just need possible.

She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.