It all came apart once you started caring for something outside yourself.

We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.

Light doesn’t always keep the dark things away, ” Nyx said.

Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings.

And there is good money to be made when things are bad.

We worship the same God and we carry the same sins.

What were all of them, really, but bits of something else? Bits of stars?

There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.

It was the secret to winning any contest, he said, in life or in the boxing ring – you just had to get up more than you fell down.

You started caring about somebody, you did stupid things.

Anything worthwhile is opposed.

What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.

Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.

You learn to build your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.

We make my opponent out as a monster. We focus on his strengths because that's what we need to negate.

It is the moment when what was chaos is now seen as having a center of gravity. There is a shape where a moment ago there was none.

There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.