“Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.”

“At some point, you have to decide not merely what you're going to believe, but how you're going to believe. Are you going to believe in people, or in ideas or in Orcholam? With your heart, or with your head? Will you believe what's in front of you, or in what you think you know? There are some things you think you know that are lies. I can't tell you what those are, and I'm sorry for that.”

“life is our battlefield. We must do what we know to do, not what we want to do.”

“My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?...”

“What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.”

“You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.”

“What happens if you do nothing, nothing, there's a price and a terrible freedom to that”