"Yeah, well, we all have to do shit we don't like. There's only one winner in every arena. The rest of us die. Every time. Best you can hope for, most of the time, is that it's quick and painless."

Joel looks at the other man again, something hard and empty in his eyes. "I've been killin' to stay alive for twenty years. If it bothered me, I would've been dead a long time ago."