“Interrogation...was the highest art of the inquisitor.”

“To affect the quality of the day - that is the highest of the arts.”

“Peace is an art as much as war is, and knowing when and how to negotiate peace is the art's highest form.”

“A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.”

“We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.”

“And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest, nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared, as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused as anxiety does, which never lets him escape, neither by diversion nor by noise, neither at work nor at play, neither by day nor at night.”