Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.

Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?

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.

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.

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

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.

Darkness shields as much as it threatens.