The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled with buoyant darkenss instead of water.

Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.

Humanity is worse than flies.

Writers were as parasitic, she supposed, as the spore itself.

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.

Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don't give to someone who needs, because you can't bear to have less.

Life is magical for a lover.

No matter how far you have come... No matter how you survived your checkered past... Sometimes, you simply have to make a choice.

I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.

Frankly, I had enjoyed the war… and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun?

I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.

Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital

Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.