“Information is power.--Humfrey”

“Evil can never touch the person who refuses to accept it.”

“One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.”

“At first I was exhilarated by my freedom from the responsibility of the kingship. This lasted about seven minutes. I was also depressed by my freedom from marriage, for I had become accustomed to the attentions of a woman. This lasted about nine minutes. Then I was bored.”

“What kind of fool had he been, to throw away romance untried?”

“Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.”

“...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.”