“Good men don't become legends," he said quietly."Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.”
“Legends simply don't live or die like men”
“Legends should stay legends otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.”
“I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.”
“Katy shook her head at me. 'We don't pretend we're from the legend. We are the legend”
“It doesn't matter. Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend. This country needs its legends. And even the legends don't believe it anymore.”