Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

If you're going to risk dying, there's no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.

My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.