I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

I want to show the world that we have the best fighters. Our motto is, 'Death is better than second place.'

Winning, to me, is relief; losing is like dying. It's gut-wrenching.

I believe in the death penalty.

The short story can't really hold an interesting event. It can't hold a death or a war or a loss of great magnitude the way either a long story or a novel can.