When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.

We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.