“When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”
“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
“The essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.”
“A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.”
“How hard it is to become a man again when one has ceased to be a man." -The Lost Steps”
“In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.”