A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

Love taught me that your honour did but jest.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor - the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.