“can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!”

“All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.”

“You can't blame me. I mean that literally. You're incapable of blaming me. You're human. Being human is choosing freedom over imprisonment, autonomy over dependency, liberty over servitude. You can't blame me because you know (come on, man, you've always known) that the idea of spending eternity with nothing to do except praise God is utterly unappealing. You'd be catatonic after an hour. Heaven's a swiz because to get in you have to leave yourself outside. You can't blame me because -- now do please be honest with yourself for once -- you'd have left, too.”

“We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.”

“If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.”

“All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.”