Source: Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988), Chapter 1 “Camp Zero” (p. 38)
As quoted in "Fresh Off the Boat Star: I Don't Need to Represent Every Asian Mom Ever" in Time Magazine (10 February 2015) https://time.com/3696111/fresh-off-the-boat-constance-wu/
“Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't — no matter when, no matter what.”
Source: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 31 (p. 293)
Context: Here it was again, the most ancient of roadforks, one that Paul had glimpsed before, in Kroner's study, months ago. The choice of one course or the other had nothing to do with machines, hierarchies, economics, love, age. It was a purely internal matter. Every child older than six knew the fork, and knew what the good guys did here, and what the bad guys did here. The fork was a familiar one in folk tales the world over, and the good guys and the bad guys, whether in chaps, breechclouts, serapes, leopardskins, or banker's gray pinstripes, all separated here.
Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't — no matter when, no matter what.
“Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like.”
The Devil's Notebook (1992)
“Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Original: Il legame tra noi e la musica consiste nello scegliere ciò che ci piace e ci fa star bene, non ciò che ci viene imposto.
Source: prevale.net
