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

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

We can only learn so much and live.

Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.

I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.