“I never change, except in my affections.”
“I changed the world; the world changed me.Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.”
“Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence."There is much I don't understand.""That will never change," Mortis said decisively. "Except that what you don't understand will change.”
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
“Since childhood, I had always been affected by the changes of the moon, sometimes very much so. As the light of the satellite fell on my face my mind cleared, and I knew what was to be done. ("Absolute Evil")”
“Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.”