To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.

It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.

I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness.

If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.