If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.

The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for other cultures.

Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.