“It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.”

“The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.”

“So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.”

“Dismiss perfection as an ache of the greedy, but do not give in to the mass modesty of easy imperfection.”

“and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter”

“Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.”

“when I was a boy I used to dream of becomingthe village idiot.I used to lie in bed and imagine myself thehappy idiotable to get food easily...and easy sympathy,a planned confusion of not too much love or effort.some would claim that I have succeeded.”