"If you want to be an assassin, remember that you must decline all challenges. Showing off is not your job. If you are…"

""You are on strike against God"--said by a nineteenth-century American judge to a group of women workers from a texti…"

"“Well, hell,” said Jael more genuinely, “the war. If there isn’t one, there just was one, and if there wasn’t one, th…"

"Remember, I don’t threaten. I don’t play. I always carry firearms. The truly violent are never without them."

"As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest."

"Remember: I didn’t and don’t want to be a “feminine” version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiar…"

"The amazing peacefulness, the astonishing lack of anger, the sweetness and balm of being at last on the right side of…"

"Let's be for us. For goodness' sakes, let's not be against us. (p107)"

"I told him to open his eyes, that I didn’t want to kill him with his eyes shut, for God’s sake."

"After a while you tame your interior monsters, it's only natural. I don't mean that it ever stops; but it stops matte…"