“I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than yourealize.”

“I have a thing about losers. Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws. Not that Dostoyevsky's characters don't generate phatos, but they're flawed in ways that don't come across as faults. And while I'm on the subject, Tolstoy's characters' faults are so epic and out of scale, they're as static as backdrops.”

“I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”

“All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.”

“I spend more time being confused than not,” I answered.”

“I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.”

“My life is like a trunk stuffed with dirty laundry. It contains more than enough material to drive any one human being to mental aberration - maybe two or three people's worth? My sex life alone would do. It’s nothing I could talk about to anyone. No, I can’t go to a doctor. I have to solve this on my own.”