Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.

One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

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