“It is pointless to construct a hierarchy of who hurt more, and whether one kind of pain was more or less justified than another.”

“Pain is pain...Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.”

“Pain is pain, babe. Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.”

“More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.”

“No one must ever fancy another human being so much more evil than themselves that killing was justified.”

“There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.”