“Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest.”

“The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act.”

“I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.”

“The only way back is the way forward.”

“Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. ”

“The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.”

“The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.”