If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.

Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.

I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.

I know nothing and perhaps I never will.

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

I have always been a dark writer.