“Torture is the act of making someone die a slow death, making the prisoner die several times.”
“Killing was a relatively simple matter--a blow to the head, a knife to the throat--complicated only by how much one cared about the pain or terrors animals felt in dying.... The animal also died a second death. Severed from the form in which it had lived, severed from the act that had killed it, it vanished from human memory as one of nature's creatures.”
“A novel is born several times and dies several times, before it takes its final life form.”
“When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!”
“Do what you love or die a slow death doing what you hate”
“The violent and strong do not die their natural death. I will make this the basis of my teaching.”