Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.

I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.

In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at.

But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.