Joe: The human qualities can be expressed in one word: hypocrisy.
Joe: Who perhaps is happy when all is said and done.
Joe: The secret ingredient for sex is love.
Joe: We elevate those who say right but mean wrong, and mock those who say wrong but mean right.
Joe: It's said to be difficult to take someone's life. I would've said that it's more difficult not to. For a human being, killing is the most natural thing in the world. We're created for it.
Joe: Even though only one in a million, as my dubious therapist said, succeed in mentally, bodily, and in her heart ridding herself of her sexuality, this is now my goal.
Seligman: But is that a life worth living?
Joe: It's the only way I can live it. I will stand up against all odds, just like a deformed tree on a hill. I will muster all my stubbornness, my strength, my masculine aggression.
Joe: How do you keep a wave upon the sand?