There is no way to get your health back. You live on memories of what was and fantasies about what might have… — 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.

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

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