Mark Hennion

“It never works that way. Once that ugliness has been forced into you, it becomes part of your blood, dilutes it, races through your heart and back out again, staining everything as it goes. The ugliness never goes away, never comes out, no matter what you do. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive. All you can do is hope to control it.”
― Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War

“Man is a predatory animal. He lives by eating other animals and he enriches himself by stealing that which belongs to his neighbor. Hence the history of the world is the history of war.”
― HENDRICK VAN LOON

“It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.”
― Paul Auster, Oracle Night

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
― Stephen King