I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

Where there is no waste, there is no want.

A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse.

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete.

I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground.

Time will unfold its leaves.

. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.

The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.