Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?

Hell, madame, is to love no longer.