"Okay, Jubal, you can go to hell--for mokeying with my karma. If I have one."
"A moot point. The predestinators and the free-willers were still tied in the
fourth quarter last I heard. Either way, I have no wish to disturb a man
sleeping in a gutter; I assume until proved otherwise that he belongs there.
Most do-gooding reminds me of treating hemophilia--the only real cure for
hemophilia is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more
hemophiliacs."
"You could sterilize them."
"You would have me play God?..."
-Jubal in an exchange with Ben, someone he'd saved, pg 209, recorded 6/6/1999