“I am what is around me.”
“The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am”
“I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.”
“I see more of what is going on around me because I am not concerned with finding a parking place.”
“Go ahead, Marlene, thought Edward. Push me around. Do with me as you will. What does it matter? I am broken. Broken.”
“People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.”