“And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is.”

“Sometimes the hardest things to believe are the only things worth believing at al.”

“A good trap is like a good story: hidden and leading towardone inevitable conclusion”

“A goodtrap, like a good story, has to arise naturally from the environment.It has to be seamless. If the prey suspects whats coming,theyll bolt.”

“In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.”

“You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.”

“You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless.”

“There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes it is stripped down to a single essential truth, the thing that is a...”

“I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later...”

“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.All of them?Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, cap...”