Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense.

Love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.

Bacon improved things dramatically.

How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered