You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.

It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.

If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.

There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.

This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others away and darkness results. Yet the reverse is not true: take away darkness and there is only more darkness. Darkness can exist by itself. Light cannot.

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.