What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing

What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.

You've commited murder just as much as Helene did. You killed a fly with a human head. She killed a human with a fly head.

Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before." "Tell her when the moon's full, barbarians sprout horns and fire comes out of our mouths like dragons.

And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.

It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.