A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.
I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt.
We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.
I have been despised by better men than you.
It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It’s not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.
An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?