Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.