“nature or nurture' said the professor. 'Whichever way the parents are to blame”
“Shouldn't an important part of discovering yourself be discovering what you family was like? Whichever side you favor in the nature versus nurture argument, who your parents are certainly helped shape who you are.”
“Then you can blame it on your parents,' I said, smiling. 'Won't that be a relief?”
“......philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization....but if professors can truly wield this fatal power, may it not be that only other professors, or, at least, other thinkers can alone disarm them?”
“Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.”
“To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents”