I may not believe in religion, but I admire it. Stories and relics, splinters and cups. Small things, easy things. Put them all together, and what do you have? Power.
Sometimes the object of a man’s desire is beyond reach.
Good Christians are spies that you don’t have to pay.[to Pope Boniface VIII]
Every man has two sides. The man he wants to be, and the man he really is.
The immense heights man might ascend to art, music, culture… And instead, we fuss and fight over an arrestingly ordinary cup.
Sometimes the seeds of a man’s destruction are also the seeds of his redemption.
Mercenaries are not distracted by gods or symbols.
Even a man who knows himself well, who knows his own dark thoughts, can surprise himself with what he’s capable of.
Danger has its compensations.
