Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't.
If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.
I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.
If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.
...The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.
He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.