“It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.”

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

I definitely know that love is the most powerful thing of all.

Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.

It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Death comes for us all in the end.