“Americans were most likely good people...the only thing wrong with them, David thought, was that they spoke English very badly.”
“For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but then he reminded himself of the sailor and Angelo and the English people who might have been ignorant but were certainly not bad.”
“You speak very good English for an American.”
“Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.”
“Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.”
“In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.”