You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.