Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.

The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.

The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.

The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.