For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.

My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.

I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.