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

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.

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

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.

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.

If the world is a game whose rules are written by the God, and sorcerers are those who cheat and cheat, then who has written the rules of sorcery?

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.