When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?

Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away.

There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.

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I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.