“I suppose it would be better if one were aggressive, contentious and so on. But there's rarely any occasion to be savage.”

“A falling star is actually on fire as it enters the atmosphere, so if I were to try and catch one, I'm pretty sure there would be some pain involved. Though, I would suppose some pain would be worth it to find something so rare.”

“If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.”

“Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?”

“I don't feel that we were savages. We were in a savage land that made us hard, but we were not savages. Savages today are different, different in all ways. Their savagery is done in technical ways, so they are not called savages anymore. I don't know what savage means, really. There are good and bad in every race. There are traditional values that are good and bad. That goes for everybody.”

“I suppose with so many things suddenly getting better, the things that were still missing hurt even worse.”