"I believe in justice, as long as I'm holding a knife at the throat of the judge."
- Matthew Woodring Stover
"…what your life means depends on how you tell the story."
"Don't care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other."
"And so, here at the end of days, you are as you’ve always been. Willing to die. Not willing to quit"
"A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers.One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich, the other poor. One is harsh, the other gentle. One is forever youthful, the other old before..."
"The capacity for personal freedom is a rare talent. Talent exists to be used. We do not ask sheep to be wolves; we, the wolves, do not ask ourselves to be sheep. Sheep can make such rules as happen to..."
"Jacen reflected bitterly that a large part of growing up seemed to involve watching everything change, and discovering that all changes are permanent. That nothing ever changes back. That you can’t go..."
"I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step."
"... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic dust..."
"That’s what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong."