I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.