“Doubt is faith's shadow.”

“Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.”

“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”

“It was the logic of retaliation that created the constitutional state. The enshrined promise of an eye for an eye, the sinner burning in hell or at least dangling for the gallows. Revenge is basically the foundation of civilization”

“Everyone has a need to do penance. It’s a basic need, like washing. It’s about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It’s the balance we call morality.”

“A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.”

“There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.”