If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

I can write pretty much anywhere.

It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.