Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six." "Right." "And you're the oldest." "Yes." "That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or a mule, there is no punishment. But he shall not approach the king, and shall not become a priest... If a pig spring upon a man for intercourse, there is no punishment.

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.