“For the first time, I will smile without feeling guilty, because joy is not a sin.”

“To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.”

“The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.”

“So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.”

“A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?”

“Let he who is without sin cast the first lure.”

“What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.”

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

“When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.”

“You may not hold me guilty of sins committed in dreams.”