“It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.”

“Sometimes instead of creating a scene it’s better to quietly slip out of the scene, practically unseen. It saves a lot of drama, unless of course you’re into more drama in your life, in which case, go ahead and make a scene, see what happens.”

“I was a new person in the same world, which was a lot more difficult than being the same person in a new world.”

“Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”

“Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.”

“Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier -- their Christianity, for example.”