Paul Nelson

“Cruelty is not taught. It is as certain as a compass point. One can be instructed in the specifics of cruelty, like one can be taught to use a spoon, a knife, a fork, but even without these skills a man will still eat. The need is with us.”
― Lee Thomas, The German

“What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But it was not seeing, really. For once it was not just seeing. It was beholding. I beheld the river in its icy pit of brightness, in its far-below sound and indifference, in its large coil and tiny points and flashes of the moon, in its long sinuous form, in its uncomprehending consequence.”
― James Dickey, Deliverance

“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
― Jack London, White Fang

“I would shake the world until its teeth rattled if that was required to have it spit out an answer.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns