The devil-ache of loneliness seldom deserts the bones of the angry.

Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear.

Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.

Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.