Emily

“Belief is powerful. It can create something out of nothing. Belief is one of the special qualities of humanity, like free will, opposable thumbs and backaches. Belief is a spark of the divine in you. Pretty special.”
― Mark Cain, Beelzebub: A Memoir

“You humans, though, have a choice. You can be good. You can be bad. When you are good, you can accomplish sublime things. Feed a starving child. Risk your life to rescue another. Let someone else have the last slice of cheesecake. But when you’re bad, there’s no limit to your atrocities. You commit genocide, develop a weapon that can kill a hundred thousand in the blink of an eye,”
― Mark Cain, Beelzebub: A Memoir

“What’s that a picture of? A cow eating grass. Where’s the grass? The cow ate it all. Where’s the cow? Why should he hang around if all the grass has been eaten?” You know: white art. White stuff.”
― Mark Cain, I'm No Angel

“The death drive, which some people have called Thanatos, for branding reasons I think, is an urge we have to return to our earliest state, an inorganic state.”
― Mark Cain, The Reluctant Demon