“Being reliable is something. Being good.”
“He was responsible. He was good. It's easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene. Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something, being good.”
“Thus for me, the principal meaning of being a Jew was something people reliably held against me, a barrier to overcome. ”
“One would like to know, for most people, being denied reliable telepathic communication, reach for the phone, which they feel is more reliable.”
“Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.”
“Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.”