“The very thing that makes him a great killer makes him very much unsuitable for anything else.”

“Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.”

“She stared stupidly into his eyes, thinking about how very much she’d like to make that noise again…with him.”

“The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.”

“God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. ”

“It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very.”