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I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

I'm not the kind of person that would step on people just to get where I wanted to be, but I have crossed moral boundaries when I've either been afraid or desperate.

I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.

Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.

I started to think about the assumptions we make that everyone we meet operates under the same moral code, and how betrayed we feel when that isn't the case.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

It's very hard to live with yourself if you don't stick with your moral code.