Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.

I used to make the mistake of assuming people were inherently smart.

...Lance is the inevitable product of our celebrity-worshipping culture and the whole money-mad world of sports gone amok. This is the Golden Age of fraud, an era of general willingness to ignore and justify the wrongdoings of the rich and powerful, which makes every lie bigger and widens its destructive path.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

it is our eyes that see for us, our brain to tell us what things are, and our heart that tells us what they mean.