We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.