“Save the world by torturing one innocent child? Which innocent child?”

“Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!”

“There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of innocence children have) is rooted in their trust of you, one that you will shortly be obliged to betray; whether it is fair or not, whether you can help it or not, you are always the ultimate guarantor or destroyer of that innocence.”

“I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world of adults.”

“Nick felt a tear rise to his eye at the thought of the child's utter innocence of hangovers.”

“We must save the world, one child at a time.”