You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

And you," he says, "you need to talk to your boy." He lifts my chin. "And if he needs saving, then you save him. Isn't that what you told me you did for each other?" I let go a few more tears but then I nod. "Over and over again.

As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.

Know yourself and go in swinging.

We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.