Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.

I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.

And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister.

I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.

And here I always thought morality was useless.

It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.