Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands

I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.