“Everyone has a plan until they've been hit.”

“I don't like money actually, but it quiets my nerves.”

“If you gotta tell them who you are, you ain't nobody.”

“No man is a man until he has been a soldier.”

“Life will deal me many different hands, some good, some bad (maybe they've already been dealt), but from here on in, I'll be turning my own cards. —Alton Richard”

“My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the years; each book has repeatedly been called onto the carpet and asked to explain itself. I own no book that has not fought the good fight, taken on all comers, and earned the right to remain. If a book is there, it is there for a reason.”

“Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall.The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.”