We are all the sum total of our pasts, good and evil. - Glen Cook

No world lacks its villains so self-confident that they don’t believe they can get the best end of a bargain with the darkness.

I did not expect them to try anything but I am alive at my age because I make a habit of being ready for trouble when it seems most unlikely.

Oh, ‘twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.