He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Each the others world entire.

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.