The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.

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

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.

I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.