“There’s always a random element to taking lives.”
“There’s always going to be a criminal element in the population. At least as long as people believe they need politicians.”
“You still secretly believe that there is an element of magic to this world? It's all just soulless molecules bouncing against each other randomly.”
“There’s always an end. But the end is always the beginning of something else. The periods we write into our lives are always provisional, in one way or another.”
“There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.”
“desires,” I mean things we feel that we need or want very strongly. There’s an element of passion in the experience of desire”