The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.

Even in my bravest moment, I am a coward.

Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.

It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author, usually only one.

The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. "There's nothing left worth saying.

Sometimes I wonder if he has a philosophy. Maybe even a worldview. I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bit somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts. But he's too much of a toughguy to ever be that vulnerable. - R on M

I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.