“The first thing a principle does is to kill somebody.--Gaudy Night”
“I will not be someone who abandons my principles as soon as they become inconvenient. I will not be someone who says that certain things have to be done… as long as somebody else does them.”
“From man's blood-sodden heart are sprungThose branches of the night and dayWhere the gaudy moon is hung.What's the meaning of all song?"Let all things pass away.”
“Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?”
“The government cannot give to anybody anything that thegovernment does not first take from somebody else.”
“What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.”