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

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.