“We can't continue treating people like monsters and then wondering why they have so few reservations about doing monstrous things.”

“After all your years climbing around in people’s heads like a cranial janitor, do you think people know why they do things? People rationalize, they turn their delusions into something romantic that they can disguise as ethics or principles or ideals. People are selfish, Doctor- odiously, monstrously, but in so small and paltry a monstrousness that we barely notice it.”

“Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?”

“Why do people need other people so much? Why can't we just do our work and go home? Why do we have to talk and touch and dream together?”

“We wonder how people can't see the most obvious things about themselves, yet we forget those people are us.”

“Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?”