All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind.

“Do you take pride in your hurt?” Samuel asked. “Does it make you seem large and tragic?” “I don't know.” “Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”

For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.