“When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even thoseyou love.”
“I love you, rotten,Delicious rottenness....wonderful are the hellish experiences,Orphic, delicateDionysos of the Underworld.”
“And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.”
“You mustn’t blame yourself for the way the boy’s turned out, Vernon. If there’s something rotten on the inside, there’s nothing anyone can do about it.”
“This world is rotten. The rotten should die.”
“Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit.”