Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it

When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.

Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.

There's a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It's not until you look back, see the distant heights where you once lived, that you understand your journey.

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.

When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.