People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.

Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

Those with the least always lose the most in war.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. ‘They change back.

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.