“I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!”

“I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping and destroying those malignancies that would otherwise consume us.”

“Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?”

“vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”

“We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.”

“There’s something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren’t.”