MacBeth

“I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

“As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“I would prefer not to.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener