You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.

Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.

From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.