The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

the possession of power brings on madness.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.