“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addict...”

“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.”

“You cant fool people into loving you.”

“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”

“You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.”

“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots....”

“You gain power by pretending to be weak.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”

“A sneer is the weapon of the weak.”

“You may look tough, but being weak-hearted still makes you weak.”