When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an evil which exists to oppose other evils; and on that great Day of which the prophets speak but in which they do not truly believe, on the day the world is utterly cleansed of evil, then I too will go down into darkness, swallowing curses. Until then, I will not wash my hands nor let them hang useless.

Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.