“You don’t have to like a man to respect him.”

“There’s an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another’s degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.”

“You know, that's the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names.”

“Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.”

“Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.”

“An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.”

“Loyalty," he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation.”

“How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?”

“Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for.”

“You don’t have to like a man to respect him.”

“A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.”