“The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.”

“Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.”

“Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.”

“Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint”

“A mans greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint”

“Your Majesty, Durzo said gravely. A man of your statures cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious reiteration of the excreta that fills the void between his ears. - Durzo Blint”

“Maybe I should have gone into politics. If you were a political activist, election season brought moments of intensity, whichever side you were on, and meanwhile here I was inarguably withering away,”

“What, more realistically, is this mutation, the new man? He is the rootless man, discontinuous with a past that Nihilism has destroyed, the raw material of every demagogues dream; the free-thinker ...”

“People spent their lives searching for something beyond the simple friction of skin on skin, but there was nothing. The void between two people could never be closed, and in trying to close it, the...”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”