“Arelene's middle name was tolerance, mostly because she was too easygoing to take a moral stance.”

“We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.”

“..English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance.”

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

“She almost never said his name. Because it made the dreams too real. Because it made the loneliness too tangible when she woke up.”

“Most moral relativists believe that tolerance of cultural diversity is better, in some important sense, than outright bigotry. This may be perfectly reasonable, of course, but it amounts to an overarching claim about how all human beings should live. Moral relativism, when used as a rationale for tolerance of diversity, is self-contradictory.”