Thank God for imminent doomsday.

Nobody can be bad at everything. There’s no such thing as a perfect screwup.

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

God save me from idealists.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.