I'm a weak man, Navani. I really am. If I give myself a few feet of leeway, I burst through all of my prohibitions.

I can’t let it happen. I can’t risk it. I have to protect you, and I will. With every breath in me, I will.

Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man’s nature to make the same mistakes over and over.

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brainsSuch shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.

He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner.

When you’re lost there’s nowhere to go but forward. One step at a time – and the way will show itself.

The crimson leaf that blew past looked the twin of the one she'd picked up in the palace courtyard: a bloodied hand.

A hero is not measured by the lives that he has saved. A hero is measured by the number of the dead that he did not join.

No valía la pena perder el tiempo en intentar cambiar el mundo; bastaba con evitar que el mundo lo cambiase a uno.

None of us could choose our birth, but we could still chose our family, and only those who love you are your true family.

If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.

One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.