“Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?”

“You have wondered perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today’s cowboys”

“How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away. Nets and fences can be mirrors. And between the nets and fences, opponents are also mirrors. This is why the whole thing is scary. This why all opponents are scary and weaker opponents are especially scary.See yourself in your opponents. They will bring you to understand the Game. To accept the fact that the Game is about managed fear. That its object is to send from yourself what you hope will not return.”

“The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.”

“Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?”

“In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.”

“I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.”