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

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

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

“...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.”

“Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It’s living well that I couldn’t do. What’s death compared to that.”

“How can one love the light and live in darkness?”

“There's a divinity that shapes beauty from our rough hewn lives.”