But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power." "Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?" "That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong.

The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.

I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.

I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.