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

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.

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

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.

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

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