For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
The evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you are going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
Don't think of it as dying, just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.
Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.
"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE."
It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.