“I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen too many lies go unquestioned, and too many questions go unasked. There is a time when even reasonable men must begin to take unreasonable actions. To do anything else is to be less than human.”

“That was the cold equation. How many lives is one person, even a totally innocent person, going to be worth?”

“His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up.”

“My story ended where so many stories have ended since the Rising: with a man—in this case, my adoptive brother and best friend, Shaun—holding a gun to the base of my skull as the virus in my blood betrayed me, transforming me from a thinking human being into something better suited to a horror movie.”

“People who can’t hack it as Irwins because they’re too violent go into the air travel industry.”

“Journalism must have been very different before people resolved so many of their conflicts with bullets.”

“Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever.”