“What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature?”

“if you believe you can, or believe you can't - either way you're right”

“If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.”

“Didn't it make sense that after something horrible happens, something better should follow?”

“Time and suffering are inseperable. In life, as in physics, both are the common denominator of all experiences.”

“Even in love we suffer, because in that very moment of love, Time, the insatiable Devourer, is destroying what we love...or ourselves.”

“It's just human, or inhuman, nature: People will find a way to make a big deal out of their differences-the smaller, the better. It reminded me of the Mantagues and the Capulets (if I wanted to think highbrow), or the Hatfields and the McCoys (if I wanted to go lowbrow)...or the Jets and the Sharks (if I happened to feel musical).”