Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.

People, particularly big men carrying big rifles, don't expect lip from a scrawny thing like me. They always look a bit dazed when they get it.

Just because you escape one trap, doesn't mean you will escape the next.

Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.

There’s no such thing as too much champagne. Though your head will try to tell you otherwise tomorrow.

The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?

I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.