“… and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind”

“No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.”

“Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.”

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”

“Anyone can become angry —that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way —this is not easy.”

“How can we affect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?”

“We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.”

“When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.”

“Again I resume the long
lesson: how small a thing
can be pleasing, how little
in this hard world it takes
to satisfy the mind
and bring it to its rest.”

“How can a heart expression find?
How should another know your mind?
Will he discern what quickens you?
A thought once uttered is untrue.”