“A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting damage, not disturbing the universe but damaging it.”
“The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before Igave him ID.”“It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. “A sick,sad world.”
“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”
“He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.”
“It's sick and twisted and violent. Other than that it is totally G rated.”
“It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in this world.”