“Yessir. A crutch, like one-legged men always have.”
“This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer.”
“A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.”
“I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.”
“If I had a wooden leg I could sit on three-legged chairs no problem.”