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I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

It’s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is

Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death

Making death their ideal basis for different ideals.

The Communists however disapprove of death

Except when practical.

Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.

Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.

Incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.

Did everyone in jail think they were innocent? All this time Peter had spent lying on the bench, convincing himself that he was nothing like anyone else in the Grafton County Jail—and as it turned out, that was a lie.

The enemy was always supposed to be an outsider, not the kid who was sitting right next to you.

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.