There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it was one of my goats.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.