War had a way of making carpe diem seem valid no matter what you wanted to seize... - Steve Perry

“You cheated!”
“Hell yes, I did. I learned a long time ago, better you learn to fight smarter, not harder.”
“If you had not had the pistol—”
“Then I’d have used some other tool. Knife, stick, a chair, whatever. Fighting fair gets you killed unless the other guy also fights fair and you are better than him and lucky. First rule: Don’t do it.

Everybody knows that."
"Assume for a moment that everybody is wrong.

He had thought about it. Mostly, after the fantasies, he had let it go. It was done, history. No point in bumping into the furniture while looking back over your shoulder.