Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

was a clear, pale blue like the eyes of a Siberian husky dog. Human beings just didn't have eyes like that.

Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.

Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.

Can you truly love anyone if you do not first love yourself? If you hate yourself, can you love anyone else? If you do not accept all of who you are, can you accept anyone else? Hard questions. It remains to be seen whether I get any answers, hard, or otherwise.

Tell that to the BTK killer,” I said. “He was a churchgoer, raised two kids, married, and resisted the urge to kill for decades. He was a person, but he was a monster, too

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.