James Reacher

“He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and death”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“If we then ask what sort of mind is likeliest to display the qualities of military genius, experience and observation will both tell us that it is the inquiring rather than the creative mind, the comprehensive rather than the specialized approach, the calm rather than the excitable head to which in war we would choose to entrust...”
― Carl von Clausewitz, On War