Folks always believe their own racism is the result of divine inspiration, incontestably valid. — Glen Cook

If you ask me, the difference between a hero and a coward is that a hero find some damn-fool way to con himself into going ahead instead of doing the sensible thing.

There is no way to get your health back. You live on memories of what was and fantasies about what might have been. Both can be deadly to the man who loses sight of the demarcation between them and reality.

But somewhere along the way he had made up his mind and set it in concrete. Changed circumstances would not budge him.