“And here I always thought morality was useless”

“All that Christianity has added to morality is worthless and useless. Not only so—it has been hurtful. Take Christianity from morality and the useful is left, but take morality from Christianity and the useless remains.”

“I have always thought that morality in politics was something essential, just like feelings and affinities.”

“Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?”

“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.”

“Here's a basic difference between Morelli and me. My first thought was always of cake. His first thought was always of sex. Don't get me wrong. I like sex… a lot. But it's never going to replace cake.”

“The brain is full of thoughts. The body is useless without the presence of the mind.”

“There may be a moral here. For the life of me I can’t find it.”

“Here I thought they were invincible.”

“All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.”