"The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life."

"Every book is a journey, and every journey changes you."

I'm not a place, I'm a dimension.

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.