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

“The Lady was medicine bad enough. The Dominator, though, was the body of which her evil was but a shadow. Or so the legend goes. I sometimes wonder why, if that is true, she walks the earth and he lies restless in the grave.”

“I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.”

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

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

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