The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy. - Arthur Miller

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him!