"Ignorance is an underrated virtue, my lord."
- Andrew Levkoff
"I don’t care how smart you are. You’ll never understand how little you really know until you’ve had a woman."
"I think about that centurion from time to time and wonder, had he retired to a farm in Campagna, happy with his harvest of grapes and grandchildren, or had he fallen amongst his comrades on some dista..."
"Pride costs nothing, yet it is especially precious when it can be “purchased” at someone else’s expense."
"Yes, I have a romantic nature; it is a character flaw which should be viewed with pity, not derision."
"It is a terrible thing to witness death by violence, a thousand times worse to hold a man’s life in your own hands and to willingly, consciously take it from him. Acknowledged or not, something noble ..."
"It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival."
"Some men simply refuse to appear insulted. But then, having felt the sting from the slap on their cheek, know just where to slip the knife, their smile never fading."
"It is we who move through time, not the reverse. When we walk beyond any one of life’s instants, it becomes nothing more than a receding milestone. We can look back, but we cannot retrace our steps. T..."
"I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life’s many disappointments."