“A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.”

“I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.”

“Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.”

“No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.”

“Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?”

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”

“I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another”