“I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.”

“Anyone who remains silent in the face of murder is an accomplice to murder. Anyone who does not condemn approves.”

“People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.”

“People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”

“Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?”

“As a general principle, people feel more responsible for their actions than they do for their inactions. If we are going to err at something, we would rather err by failing to act.”