“Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?”

“All knowledge is worth having.”

“We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natur...”

“All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.”

“And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.”