“The horror is other people. The things they think up to do to you.”

“Local newspapers are directories of horror - unbelievably vile people doing unbelievably vile things to each other.”

“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great."[Six Questions for Slavoj Žižek, Harper's Magazine, November 11, 2011]”

“The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.”

“You’re so worried about what other people think of you – other people do not think of you!”

“...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.”