Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.

You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it – you must climb down in the slime to do so.

There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it was one of my goats.

Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.

Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.