When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man..

When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply tha….

You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both….

Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me..

I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits o….

As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your t….

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars..

I may be running out of options, but running out isn't an option..

There's a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It's not until you look back, see the distant heights w….

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war..

Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you..

We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man….

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design..

I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between yo….

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw..

For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on blo….

A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages..

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones..

You got responsibilities when you’re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who’re you going to lead?.

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you..

No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie..