It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft.