We grasp because God does. We create, and fall short, because God does. We continue creating because we fell short, and fall short again, because God does. Because one act of creation, one attempt at capture, is only one breath and we must breathe again. And again. And again. Here we stand (and sit and sleep), the many images of the Imager, and we can do no other.

Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.

The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.

What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.

The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.

Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.