Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility

Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?

And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.

Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.

It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.

I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.

I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content. -Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon)