When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?

The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.

For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.