What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target for untamed fantasy.

I grouped my fellow employees into three categories: the plebes, the damned, and the demons.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment capital first arrived from outer space.

I have the backbone of an eel.

I'm gonna do a great job for America.

I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.