“In the next world I could not be worse than I am in this.”
“I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!”
“I am worse than they are, I didn't DO anything to stop them”
“I can be nothing worse and nothing better than who I am...Elly.”
“Hell of a world we live in, huh? (...) But it could be worse, huh?""That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect.”
“Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.”