“The best is the enemy of good.”
“I still believed he d love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.”
“Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.”
“Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective”
“Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.”
“There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.”
“A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.”
“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought,] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.”
“The truth is not good or bad, it is just the truth.”
“There s no rule that says you have to be a prodigy to be a hero, she insisted. If people wanted to stand up for themselves or protect their loved ones or do what they believe in their hearts is the right thing to do, then they would do it. If they wanted to be heroic, they would find ways to be heroic, even without supernatural powers.”
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
“People aren t born good or bad. Maybe they re born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
“One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine..”
“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
“..the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.”
“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”
“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can t. If a thing is free to be good it s also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata -of creatures that worked like machines- would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they ve got to be free. Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. (...) If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will -that is, for making a real world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings- then we may take it it is worth paying.”