Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.

I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But. . .can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming, 'Your cats! Give us all your gods-damned cats!

It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.

I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.

There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.