Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other.

When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.

Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?

A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.

Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.

Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.

Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.

That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else.

What was worse, being crazy or being evil?

And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.

Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.

Life is a sail boat ride. Wind, the destiny. But dammit, you are the sailor!

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.

There are two types of pain: pain that hurts you and pain that changes you.

I don't claim to have an answer to every question, but I promise you I have a question for every answer.

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.

I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways.