“The doctor was a private man, engaged in a dark and dangerous business, and could ill afford the prying eyes and gossiping tongue of the servant class.”

“These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed.But he is dead now and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets...”

“You can only call someone crazy if there's someone else who's normal.”

“Nothing is more painful than the loneliness of being with someone who is never completely there.”

“I am like the water that runs over me, immune to permanence, recycling endlessly. I am water; I am life. The form may change, but the substance stays the same. Strike me down and I will rise again....”

“You can't band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope.”

“Every evil starts with 15 volts.”

“My feeling about work is that it's an unnecessary evil, so I've always done my best to avoid it.”

“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”

“I stand before her, meeting her eye to eye and nose to nose. My head takes a slight bow as I clench my fist. I should have just killed you like any other bloodsucking vampire.So why didnt you? She ...”

“War is a monster. War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows. And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.”

“Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.”

“Theres no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.”

“Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled enemy?”

“He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.”