“It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.”

“My whole body is a lethal weapon, you know. I know more ways to kill you than you know how to die.”

“Boy, there are people who conquered half the world, slaughtered whole populations, wiped cultures off the face of the planet, and you know what history calls them? Heroes! Kings, presidents, champions, explorers. You think America was settled by white men because the Indians invited us her? No, we took this land because we were stronger, and that's how every page of human history is written. It's just our nature. We're a predator species, top of the food chain. Survival of the fittest is written in our blood, it's stenciled on every gene of our DNA. The strong take and the strong make, and the weak are there only to help them do it. End of story.”

“Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.”

“His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a monster such as this. A person who delights in your pain. A person to whom your screams are more delicious than a lover's whisper. A creature who knows how to keep you alive while he skillfully and meticulously deconstructs those things that define you as human?”

“The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.”

“He could laugh, though, and there was no bluesman who ever lived who didn't know how to laugh at the craziness of life.”