Ultimate vulnerability. That’s manly.

Giving up is always an option, but not always a failure.

It’s too bad war gets all the attention; it’s too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.

We were of thirteen minds, like a tree, in which there is one Red-tail and eleven squirrel parts.

In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because hair is dead and dead is inefficient.

The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with its ability to allow any man of any size to survive.