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

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

You're a Good Little Slave

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.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

Few things worth having can be got easily.

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me.

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

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

She wanted to kiss him.No.It was one thing to return his kiss

She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.

Human mercy is proof of having received divine mercy.

It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been working their way up, little by little, for a while.

He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.