“Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.”

“The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.”

“I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another man. A stripling, filled with the foolish ignorances of youth. Yeah. Sometimes you lie to yourself just to keep going.”

“The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.”

“More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.”

“I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.”

“Justice has nothing to do with it. Stark, bloody, screaming, agonizing vendeance is what I'm talking about.”