“He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever.”

“In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ought to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live.”

“You should give up.''Why?''For one thing, you'll live longer.''Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.”

“Well, it probably won't live. They say the way her mama beat her she lucky to be alive herself. She be lucky if it don't live. Bound to be the ugliest thing walking. Can't help but be. Ought to be a law: two ugly people doubling up like that to make more ugly. Be better off in the ground. Well, I wouldn't worry none. It be a miracle if it live.”

“Doing the right thing often resulted in living the wrong thing forever.-Christian, Marquess of Eastrerbrook”

“Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”