“It seems it doesn't pay to be good anymore, when people are short-changing you for evil.”

“Life is sweet when you pay attention. When it doesn't seem sweet, put a sticker on your nose and do a funky dance.”

“When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.”

“People today...it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice.”

“When evil approaches, when it's really coming for you, it doesn't make a single sound. There's no reason to fear the noises in the night because honest-to-goodness evil has the power to be completely silent.”

“You're only two handshakes away from evil.... Maybe it's the same thing with goodness. We're never far from what's good.... It doesn't seem like such a far-fetched idea that it takes only 36 people to keep evil at bay. Just remember that all of the upheavals in world history, both good and bad, were initiated by individuals.”