Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

History is littered with dead good men

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.