An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.

There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease still lives on in his children. Not in our bodies, but in our souls. We exist where normal human children are expected to be; we're even shaped the same. But each of us in our own way has been replaced by an imitation child, shaped out of a twisted, fetid, lipidous goiter that grew out of Father's soul.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.