“For reasons I can only guess, my mother always instructed me that it was impolite to tell the truth...Whatever she lacked in versimilitude, she more than made up for in stealth.”

“I had learned many times that the more you try to get people to deny their illusions, the stronger the illusions can become. But if you indulge those delusions instead, they often fall apart on their own.”

“Given my upbringing and my life in general, it's not so hard to imagine that my mind would capsize eventually.”

“The Internet is to our intellectual life what the universal unconscious is to our psychological life. In fact, the Internet is the new universal unconscious. It's not even a metaphor anymore.”

“Sometimes history turns on that little: a single moment, a single bullet.”

“It happened in the autumn of the year, when murder feels at home, because so many other things are dying.”

“The inferior man lived only in his fantasies, because he lacked willpower and imagination. The superior man made his fantasies a reality. (Martin Darius)”