To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists i have not found it

If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.

Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.

True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact. Another fact you might like to consider, in your life of perpetual terror, is that you will die. We are all going to die, some of us young, some of us old, some of us in our sleep, some of us screaming in agony. We cannot stop it, we can only delay it.

Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.