“No one has the need to know anything about me.”

“No.""Why?""No one needs to know," I say."To know what?How long you've lasted?" Vick asks."To know anything about me," I say.”

“If history has taught me anything about the nature of others, it has thought me that when natures can not be denied, they persist.”

“Everyone thinks they know so goddamned much about everything and no one knows fuck all about anything.”

“To understand an issue or someone’s argument about anything,one needs to understand the very nature of the issue, which is thefoundational question concerning anything.”

“Experience, as we know, is deceptive: one judges the world through the prism of what has happened to oneself and considers this a just and reasonable approach, when in fact it is quite obviously the perfect tactic for never learning anything about anything.”