Have the courage of your convictions once you have made a decision.
The two most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win.
If you're not shootin', you should be loadin'. If you're not loadin, you should be movin', if you're not movin', someone's gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick.
If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?
Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it's gonna be empty.
Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way.
You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language.
I'm aware the fans in the U. S. can be less forgiving. . . I'll just have to do my best to please them.
Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?
I press to my centre, and find there is something there.
We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.