The enemy is never more unnerving than when he's invisible.

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

War is an admission of failure

Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.

If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so much of it; you killed an hour, but what good did that do when there were thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions more hours just waiting to take its place?