I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,” I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and that their company is all your happiness can ever desire and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft and lost.

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot change that truth. And I was a warrior, and in a world at war the warrior must be cruel.

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.

Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.

We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy.

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.