We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

But what I do I do because I like to do.

If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. The more sin he sees, the more his belief in Original Sin is confirmed. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.

When the State withers, humanity flowers.

laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.