There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.

You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.

We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.