Who said “The face of evil is always the face of total need.”?

“Of two evils, choose neither.”

“But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!”

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.”

“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”

“The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.”

“A functioning police state needs no police.”

“In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.”

“America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.”

“So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”

“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.”

“Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my good big centipede!'' If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.”