We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

Men die. It's practically what they're for.