She wasn’t afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.
I hate New Year’s Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven’t yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn’t matter.
We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
This is why you shouldn’t fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.
That’s what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.
What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
I wouldn’t mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don’t know the way out.
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
Was it an accident that I saw Fiyero, I wondered, looking at the manager with new eyes, or is it just that world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?
It was deliciously pagan.
Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity.
Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on – or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense.
Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.
A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible.
They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
If you’re ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don’t trust in anything.
Even God used silence as a strategy.