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

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

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?

Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy faith that bounces off unchipped.

It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you.

In politics, it's what isn't said that matters.

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.