You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else. Better to bury it and move on.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.

When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.

...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.