"I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life."

“I build myself up with confidence with aggression, and confidence to control the game. If you're the bowler and you've got the ball in your hand you're controlling the game, so you've got to make sure the batsmen knows who's boss.”

“Nothing's boring if it's in your soul.”

Source : David Drake (2010). “The Complete Hammer's Slammers: Volume 3”, p.264, Baen Publishing Enterprises

“Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.”

“I don’t think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.”

“The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.”

“Little things that run the world.”

Source : "Expo Line Landscaping Lunacy" by Lisa Novick, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

“There's a certain groove you pick that makes the music flow, and when you have it it's in your pocket. It's the feeling behind the rhythm to me, the hardest thing to strive for is that feeling, behind the groove.”

“I have a free couple of hours," I told him, walking toward my car, which was parked on the next block. "There's a very private, very secluded barn in Lookout Hill Park behind the carousel. I could be there in fifteen minutes." I heard the smile in his voice. "You want me bad.”