“People are good but we don't really get to hear about them because the media is only interested in the freak show; it makes the world look much worse than it is.”

“Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.”

“The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.”

“No. But it's like the argument `don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that because it makes them feel better about the fact that they do nothing.”

“That's the thing people never warn you about with breakups. It's the good times that really get you. In fact, they hurt worse than the bad times.”

“There are more good people than bad people, and overall there’s more that’s good in the world than there is that’s bad. We just need to hear about it, we just need to see it.”