“Ill tell you now. That silence almost beat me. Its the silence that scares me. Its the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried t...”

“Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.”

“Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.”

“Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. 'In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.''Pride is ...”

“War, my friends, is a thing of beauty.”

“When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the thorns held me tight. I've learned to appr...”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.”

“Sports can't be run by governments.”

“You can't just let nature run wild.”