“It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.”

“It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die”

“one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.”

“...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.”

“I think of rounds of editing as hammer time. Then, when they interrupt my writing, I can say... *shakes head* Nah, I just can't do it. Although when I come across a brilliant line, I do think, Can't touch this. And when I'm worried I'm overwriting a scene, I think, Hammer, don't hurt 'em.”

“My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?...”

“Better oblivion chosen of his own will than torture forever according to his brother's.”