Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't.

Ultimately, there is the freedom to take the consequences.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

Life doesn't happen in chapters - at least, not regular ones.

It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).