“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

“You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.”

“The first requisite for immortality is death.”

“In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.”

“Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.”

“When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.”

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”

“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”

“The only power worth a snot is the power to get up after you fall down.”

“So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.”

“So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.”