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“The only sin is self-hatred.”
― Paul Williams, Das Energi

“The art of the novelist is to make his or her story real for the person who is reading it. Often (fortunately for fantastic novelists) this has less to do with the believability of the material than with the way the story is told. In the case of Philip K. Dick, he had the odd power of writing and speaking with complete conviction in the moment, even thought he’d reported things differently a moment earlier and was well aware he’d probably see them another way tomorrow, or later in the chapter.”
― Paul Williams

“It is indeed a paradox that Mahāyāna Buddhism, in making the moral code flexible in the interests of compassion, ends up justifying killing to an extent far greater than Mainstream Buddhism.”
― Paul Williams, Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations

“his solicitor. In the meantime he had another McDonald’s meal and a twenty-minute walk around the station yard. Shortly before the third interview commenced, Jonathan Dunphy met Peter Woods and complained about the continuing media coverage of his client’s arrest – the story was all over the news. The solicitor said he was learning more about his client’s detention from media coverage than from the police. Woods stuck to his guns, informing the lawyer that the law did not require the Gardaí”
― Paul Williams, Almost the Perfect Murder: The Killing of Elaine O’Hara, the Extraordinary Garda Investigation and the Trial That Stunned the Nation: The Only Complete Inside Account