Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war.
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

