Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be

Jedi do not fight for peace. That’s only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. We fight for justice because justice is the...

When your authority comes straight from God, shit always turns ugly.

The hope crashes into reality and people get hurt.

Names are masks, they get in the way.

Every time a horse let you up onto its back, it’s giving you its life. Every time.

Don’t care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other.

The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. It always wins because it is everywhere. It is in the wood that burns in your hearth, and in the kettle on the...

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

… 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.

And so, here at the end of days, you are as you’ve always been. Willing to die. Not willing to quit

I believe in justice, as long as I’m holding a knife at the throat of the judge.

That’s what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong.

…what your life means depends on how you tell the story.

We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask–and to answer–the two questions that define every conscious creature:...

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...

It’s not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

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...

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 home again.

A pair of starfighters. Jedi starfighters. Only two.Two is enough.Two is enough because the adults are wrong, and their younglings are right.Though this is the end of the age of heroes, it has saved its...

Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization.”-Vergere

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.