"Why are you so interested in amoebas?" "Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicat… - Margaret Atwood

"I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in."

Your righteous eyes, your laconic trigger-fingers people the streets with villains: as you move, the air in front of you blossoms with targets</p>and you leave behind you a heroic trail of desolation: beer bottles slaughtered by the side of the road, bird- skulls bleaching in the sunset.

If you do bad things for reasons you’ve been told are good, does it make you a bad person?