When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

Your blood coagulates beautifully.

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.