How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

Everybody knows life isn't worth living.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.