“My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.”
“Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.”
“Equip yourself for your own needs.”
“I thought maybe I could just get away from everything. But you can't get away from a thing that's your own fault.”
“It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.”
“In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.”