Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.

For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.