It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.

Sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage.

Revenge is an infection of the spirit.

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.

His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a monster such as this. A person who delights in your pain. A person to whom your screams are more delicious than a lover's whisper. A creature who knows how to keep you alive while he skillfully and meticulously deconstructs those things that define you as human?

There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.