Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.

There's no such thing as forever.