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.

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.

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

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.

In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.

Life is a playground and a laboratory

This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.

Public school system status quo is indefensible.

Of course we're after Iraq.. eh.. Saddam Hussein.. I mean bin Laden.

Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days; yet from that hour he loved Arwen Undómiel daughter of Elrond.

Maybe now it's time to take some chances on TV and push the boundaries with what I can do on television.

I felt like a piece of trash. I felt dirty and I felt used and I was disappointed.

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.

We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences