If I had a soul, I’d probably wind up in hell anyway.

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.

The high point of your life was when you knocked me down

Always choose your bodyguard from another country, they find it harder to make alliance and betray you.

After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?

Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.