I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers

Evil is just a point of view

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.