“They all have excellent resumes... So what I’m trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure.”

“What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.”

“They're proud of their own excellent upbringing... and by this they mean that they have all learned to speak, behave and think in exactly the same way.”

“I’m like a man who’s been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.”

“Do I know what a man is ? Do I know how a man is supposed to die ? I’m still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived ?”

“under time pressure, they began to behave just as people do when they are highly aroused. they stopped relying on the actual evidence of their senses and fell back on a rigid and unyielding system, a stereotype.”