“The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.”
“But life’s never easy when you need it to be.”
“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.”
“Yeah, isn’t it? Life’s a bitch and then one stabs you.”
“But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.”
“There is no better application of the Golden Rule than to help a homeless pet. In doing this, you are giving the gift of life itself. And since there is no greater gift, there can be no greater reward”