You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.

I admit," Morgan said with another withering look, "it's no donut.