Brian Reed

“The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“For a long time he watched her. When she was lost to sight, he was almost a little moved. But that's life, thought death.”
― Wolf Erlbruch, Ente, Tod und Tulpe

“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
― Dorothy Parker

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden