“I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.”

“Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality. ”

“Oh, wait a minute, I was supposed to be cutting back on the self-delusion, wasn't I? Whoops.”

“What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.”

“I saw that Haller was a genius of suffering and that in the meaning of many sayings of Nietzsche he had created within himself with positive genius a boundless and frightful capacity for pain.”

“Self editing is the path to the dark side. Self editing leads to self delusion, self delusion leads to missed mistakes, missed mistakes lead to bad reviews. Bad reviews are the tools of the dark side.”