"All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets."
— Cory Doctorow (Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town)

"Mister, we deal in lead."
— Stephen King (Wolves of the Calla)

"First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead"
— Stephen King (The Gunslinger)

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
— Stephen King (The Gunslinger)

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
— Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

"Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms."
— Ron Paul