Edmund felt despair eating away at his victory. Why is the world like this? He shivered. Why does it feel so cold, so hard? A smile flickered on John's face, one that was neither happy nor sad. What...

Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness?

It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people? It costs everything you are.

I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.

Killing is for those with a sick mind.

There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.

Benefit is the only blindfold required to convince ourselves that poison is wine. Liberty's comfort level rises and falls with the sympathies of its children. Well, I for one will not collaborate.

Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town - - - - anymore...

Truth leads to good deeds, and good deeds lead to Paradise. Falsehood leads to evil deeds, and evil deeds lead to the Fire.

I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but you can write with the heart's blood of some one else. You have to be a cad before you can be an...

If I had only one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against Pride. The more I see of existence, and especially of modern practical and experimental existence, the more I am convinced of the...

Everything's a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.

It's easy to be a saint when all you've known is the good.

For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; And Love, the human form divine: And Peace the human dress. Songs of Innocence. Cruelty has a human heart And jealousy a human face, Terror the human...

You ever get the feeling the world's filling up with bastards? I do. What I want to know is what happens when all the bastards run out of people to crap on? What happens when all that's left in the...

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

You are God's holy people.

Meanwhile 1st April to lie as if they were honest throughout the year.

Shamelessness is not the same as honesty.

Good – nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition.

Good does not attract evil but the opposite, it fights to shine light on darkness.

He knew what retributions your devils are liable to bring for the way you treat your wife and women or behave while your father is on his deathbed, what you ought to think of your pleasure, of acting...

For some people a thing may be right, and for others it may be wrong. There is no greater truth to morality - it is merely an opinion.

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

There is a method to man's wickedness

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the...

I did not have all the answers. I did not know if I'd deserved God's grace or wrath, or what would become of me if I ever fled this town. But I did know how to shoot a gun. - Skylla Warden

If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace - some people think that...

There are many new sinners today, but there aren't any new sins, just the old ones clothed in different rags.