There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.

one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.

Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.