“I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.”

“What model reader did I want as i was writing? An accomplice, to be sure, one who would play my game.”

“I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a son? A heart I need for a son, a soul I need for a son, compassion I want from my son, righteousness, mercy, strength to suffer and carry pain, that I want from my son, not a mind without a soul!”

“I don't want to get what I want; but, what I need through what I want; but, everything still involves around what I want. Because what I want is what i need; and, what I need is what I want”

“Fine. You don’t want to be good enough for me, then you will never be. I deserve someone who wants to be what I need.”

“And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.”