Power: a currency that never went out of style.

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.

Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?