“Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes”

“In the world, there is no absolute good, and absolute evil.”

“In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.”

“CHAPTER 10: For questions about librarians featured in erotic literature, you will find absolutely nothing in the public library.”

“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”

“She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition.”