The English don't have opinions about the Irish. They have prejudices. - Susan Howatch

Redemption's just a word and as I'm not a Christian it means nothing to me.

Death had won my three friends; Death had almost won me. But now I was the one who was going to win and I was going to win by outwitting Death over and over again ... To compete with Death, as I had discovered in the mountains, was to know one was alive.

Barbarity's everywhere, that's the truth of it. Absolutely anyone is capable of absolutely anything.
My dear Papa, I had no idea you were such a cynic!
That's not cynicism, that's honesty — as you well know, dealing with criminals as you do, seeing the human race continually at its worst.