"My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think … and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment—it's frightful—if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing."

"It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else."

"There are no innocent victims."

"Irrepressible violence is neither sound and fury, nor the resurrection of savage instincts, nor even the effect of resentment: it is man re-creating himself. The rebel's weapon is the proof of his hum…"

"We are always responsible for what we are."