Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

Tell me, tutor, ' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.

War, my friends, is a thing of beauty.

It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears.

Gomst's mouth framed a 'no', but every other muscle in him said 'yes'. You'd think priests would be better liars, what with their jobs and all.

I can help you, Jorge. I can give you back your self. I can give you your will.' He held out his hand, palm open. 'Free will has to be taken, ' I said.

So much of what we read and write these days is disposable.

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common.

The only thing I can really trust is my own self-indulgence.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.

I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but now I'm really into it.

We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.