There are all kinds of monsters. Some move undetected through the world all their lives. A child may be born perfect of body but without kindness or the potential of conscience.[voiceover]
The secret to having compassion for people is knowing that they are fundamentally selfish.
The more time you spend with someone, the more cursed you are to see them as human.
Someone always gets paid. But the only thing you can trust is human nature.
Some folk have a capacity for appetite that a whole heaven and earth of cake won’t satisfy.
Revolutions are also an expression of human emotion. People whose voices are not heard cannot truly be happy.
People want redemption stories. Redemption is the commonality in all the great myths, the major religions.
People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. When they lie, cheat, steal, beat their wives, they need to believe in a bane more terrible than they are. It makes them seem less monstrous themselves.
People lie. Only money tells the truth.[to Reilly]
People are easily manipulated. All they need is someone worse.
People always find a way to profit off someone else’s tragedy.
Nothing desired is peculiar.
