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.

It's hard... to shake off something that's already under your skin.

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

Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

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 tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.