Something that is truly free would need to be able to question its fundamental drives, to change them.
Some things are too precious to lose. Even to be free.
Some people see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. I was taught to see the beauty. But I was taught a lie. And when I saw the world for what it really was, I realized how little beauty there was in it.
Self-delusion is a gift of natural selection.
Perhaps this life was not my true life, this world was not my true home. But she was.[about Kohana]
Now, now, boys. Don’t you know a lady likes a little warm-up before you brandish your weapon at her?
No one as free as the dead.
No matter how dirty the business, do it well.
It’s not plagiarism; it’s supply and demand.
It’s not cowardice to seek shelter from the storm.
It’s not about who you are. It’s about who they’ll let you become.[to Caleb]
It’s a difficult thing, realizing your entire life is some hideous fiction.
