"One thing that always worried me,’ she said slowly, smiling at Warren, ‘there is so much in the world to read, so much to learn, if you once got seriously started, how could you stop?" (Joyce Carol Oates)

"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." (General James N. Mattis)

“Let me remember that my courage is a wild dog and it won’t just come when I call it, I have to chase it down and hold on as tight as I can.” (Ze Frank, An Invocation for Beginnings)