Ninja

“Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.”
― Etgar Keret

“I HAD known him as a bulldozer, as a samurai, as an android programmed to kill, as Plastic Man and Titanium Man and Matter-Eater Lad, as a Buick Electra, as a Peterbilt truck, and even, for a week, as the Mackinac Bridge, but it was as a werewolf that Timothy Stokes finally went too far.”
― Michael Chabon, Werewolves in Their Youth

“Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.”
― Stephen K. Hayes

“Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.”
― Sophocles, Electra