Ninja

“Koji's mouth twitched in disgust. "Who are you people?" he asked, as he had before. "You're not..." But he didn't even dare say that dangerous word-- ninja.”
― Cheryl Aylward Whitesel, Blue Fingers: A Ninja's Tale

“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

“Wikkity, every time you punch a ninja…an angel gets its wings ”
― Eric Anderson

“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