Absolute nakedness was intrusive$$$ confusing to the senses. Paradoxically$$$ it both revealed and diminished identity.

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

How well he's read$$$ to reason against reading!

The driving force of any ideology stands revealed: it can't be coherent without being intolerant.

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.

If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out$$$ you might as well read until they do.

I have always loved to use fear$$$ to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

Desperate courage makes One a majority.

Despair is something horribly simple.