Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your
reason for living.
Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.
Doubt is faith's shadow.
What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.
Everything you do leaves traces, doesn’t it. The life you’ve lived is written all over you, for those who can read.
With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can’t learn that...