“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”

“I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.”

“A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the ”

“The advantage of travel is that after a while you begin to realize that wherever you go, most people aren't really all that much different.”

“For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.”

“The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Wont I? in pitiful indecision.”

“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”

“Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat ...”

“The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival”