“Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.”

“Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.”

“Newt Scamander: My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.”

“Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. If we die, it will be so that others may live. Truly honorable death, the only honorable death, is one that enables life.”

“It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.”

“TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.”

“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”

“One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.”