“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”

“And we also know that life itself is a seemingly endless battle. A battle between what is good and bad in us. What we can only possibly win by the only way, which is to conquer and defeat ourselves.”

“You gotta remember that in war, you’re not deciding between the bad thing to and the good thing. You’re choosing between the bad and the worse. And you can’t control the shit that happens after you choose.”

“I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.”

“The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of cause.”

“Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.”

“The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same difference between a beautiful and a plain woman — a matter of millimetres.”

“It is not simply a matter of distinguishing between good and evil, but also of not confusing what is laughable with what is not. To make laughable what is not is in some way to make bad what was good.”

“Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.”

“During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.”