Fear is a weapon. Leaders use it to manipulate the people they lead and to cow other nations. Your enemies will use it to manipulate you.
Sure as a frog’s ass is watertight.
Know them
You should learn Polish and read Szymborska!
When you're driving, you don't focus on everything at once, but you have peripheral awareness of it, right? You focus on what you need to at any given moment, whether it's the car in front of you, the...
When in a fight for your life, you never, ever fight fairly. Honor and sportsmanship are wonderful in games that don’t matter, but it’s the honorable guys who always die in real battles. When there’s...
The allure of unthinking animal bliss is powerful; it always calls to us, in the same way as the edge of a cliff or the waves of the ocean: Jump. It is a necessary part of our natures, full of delight...
Sometimes I forget what I look like and I do something out of character, such as sing shepherd tunes in Aramaic while I’m waiting in line at Starbucks, but the nice bit about living in urban America i...
Saying good-bye properly afforded me a measure of peace. It was a binding of a different sort, absent of the earth's power, but still hard proof that there is magic yet in the world.
Other people in my life right now, who help me forget all the other people I have buried or lost: They are truly magic for me.
Nakari would place bullet holes on their temples like periods at the end of a sentence.
It's not polite to ask if a man has a big salami in his pants, okay?
It's a coffee place. You can't just automatically classify anything that isn't a steak house as vegetarian.
I was haunted by the ghosts of those who had trespassed against me;
I could only strive to live so that my merit outweighed my discredit.
Helgarson won’t tell me, but it must have been bad. His fangs pop out if you just say ‘Thor’ aloud, and he hunts carpenters simply because they use hammers.
Falling in love is like that: you always feel like a dumbass at some point, even if you know it‘s coming — it‘s unavoidable.
There’s anything I learned from studying philosophy, it’s that everything turns to shit—but
The nice bit about living in urban America is that people tend to either ignore eccentrics or move to the suburbs to escape them.
Gibbering case of Oh, Shit! I believe that’s a bona fide psychological term; if it isn’t, it should be.