The power to kill becomes the ultimate power in the hands of a man who has no reservations about employing it. - Glen Cook

She did not seem offended, so I added my secret philosophy of life: any dork who became a soldier for an idea instead of the money deserved to die for his country. You’re going to put it all on the table, six up with some other guy, it damned well better be for stakes you can carry away.

A sign of advancing age. You start obsessing about how much you have to get done in the time that you have left.

I began to back away.
This is how I handle my women. Duck for cover when they get distressed.