Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.

Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.

Humility, if it comes at all, almost always comes too late.

What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful of pond water beside the vast ocean of longing I felt surging through me. My head swam; my eyes blurred. I burned from the inside out as if my blood and bones were consumed with liquid fire.

Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as the bond between true friends.