You will protect with the last drop of someone else's blood what was never yours.

Now is then's only tomorrow.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death?

Law and order embrace on hate's border.

In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.

I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.