You cannot survive for long if you are not frightened.
There was only one thing emptier than having lived without love, and that was having lived without pain.
Some say the reason so many criminals go free is that the legal system is a net with a large mesh. But that gives a completely false picture. It’s a thin, fine-meshed net that catches the small fry but tears when the big fish crash into it.
My point is that you soon become lonely if you want to use your own brain to find answers.
It’s chance and nuances that separate the hero from the villain. That’s how it’s always been. Righteousness is the virtue of the lazy and the visionless. Without lawbreakers and disobedience we would still be living in a feudal society.
If you are unable to feel fear, you cannot be courageous.
If God doesn’t do His job, though, someone else has to do it.
I don’t know if crime pays, but I do know it repeats itself.
Doubt is faith’s shadow. If you are unable to doubt you can’t be a believer.
As a rule there’s little evil but a lot of human frailty.
And to imagine you are at the heart of what you think is justice and then suddenly lose all sense of direction and become the very thing you oppose.
A man does not become the leader of a flock through brute strength but through his ability to read situations correctly.