Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

You have to be careful who you let define your good.

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.