“Everything is not as good as in El-Dorado; but everything is not so bad.”
“Everything, good or bad, was down to me.”
“Komatsu's view is that there are always two sides to everything," Tengo said. "A good side and a not-so-bad side.”
“Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it. ”
“Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.”
“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”