We can only learn so much and live.

It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine – and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. It’s an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends.

There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.

We can only learn so much and live.