“How long can you brush up against evil and not come away stained with it yourself?”
“In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?”
“You can take all the precautions in the world and worry yourself like crazy, but each individual comes to this world with a life to live, no matter how long or how good or how scary it might be.”
“You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.”
“You can scrub and scrub, but sometimes something doesn't just go away. It . . . it stains you.”
“How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?”