We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy.
A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.
We all suffer from dreams
We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.