What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.

All I know of morality I learned from football

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”

They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.