Jon DeLange

“It is a terrible thing to be a king”
― Steven Pressfield, Last of the Amazons: A Novel

“A youth loathes nothing more than his own callowness. Experience is his object. Experience”
― Steven Pressfield, Last of the Amazons: A Novel

“A warrior”
― Steven Pressfield, The Profession

“His was not, I could see now, the heroism of an Achilles. He was not a superman who waded invulnerably into the slaughter, single-handedly slaying the foe by myriads. He was just a man doing a job. A job whose primary attribute was self-restraint and self-composure, not for his own sake, but for those whom he led by his example. A job whose objective could be boiled down to the single understatement, as he did at the Hot Gates on the morning he died, of “performing the commonplace under uncommonplace conditions.”
― Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire