“Death was not the scariest thing out there; no, the denial of it could be far worse.”

“She seemed like the kind of woman who would fall in love with the sky.”

“Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you're oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That's why dictatorial regimes are always a sl...”

“Maybe that was why the French called orgasms las petites morts: because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses...”

“Nothing is as deadly as the love of a powerful man.”

“It's true what they say, you know. First fuck. First love. First kill. You never forget your first.”

“if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like”

“There is certainly no hope left of getting away. And it isn't even terrible; it's possibly funny, if even that. It's embarrassing. That's all. A little embarrassing to realize that I no longer cont...”

“thinking about tracking. . . . Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your socialclass was established for the rest of your life.”

“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.”

“The more you conquer fear, the more you become stronger.., For that don't let the More Evil in.”

“There is no one who is completely evil as to lack some goodness in him.”