Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.

Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.

For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.

What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.

But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.