What is most important when the time comes - and it always will - is to live your life with the coldness of a wolf.

What is most important when the time comes - and it always will - is to live your life with the coldness of a wolf.

Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple

What is best about our lives -the moments when we are, as we would put it, at our happiest- is both pleasant and deeply unpleasant. Happiness is not a feeling; it is a way of being. If we focus on the feelings, we will miss the point.

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.