“Uncertainty is the normal state.”
“Of the uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason.”
“Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state?”
“That was the state of the world when I began to be aware of my family environment, and I cannot evoke it in any other way: sorrows, griefs, uncertainties in the solitude of an immense house.”
“One the grand paradoxes of existence and nonexistence is the uncertainty of uncertainty. Even uncertainty can be uncertain. However, can you be certain of such uncertainty?”
“In his normal state he would not strike a lamb. I’ve known him to do it’‘Do what?’‘Not strike lambs”