"Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will …"

"A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper."

"Why do they do it?" whispered Horeb. "Their eyes, you mean?" said Rek. "Yes. How can a man put out his own eyes?" "Da…"

"...the baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if h…"

"[F]ear is a great ally."

"When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive."

"Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite."

"This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring pa…"

"By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism."

"A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected."