The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to. (46)

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Relationships are never chance events.