“To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.”
“You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.”
“It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.”
“my feeling is that if you're not self-obsessed you're probably boring.”
“On the other hand, you're a human--you should understand self-obsession.”
“How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?”