A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees - knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.