TJL

“No one seems to have noticed that a loss of a sense of shame means a loss of privacy; a loss of privacy means a loss of intimacy; and a loss of intimacy means a loss of depth. There is, in fact, no better way to produce shallow and superficial people than to let them live their lives entirely in the open, without concealment of anything.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses

“We are not the enemy,” he says. “That’s what the enemy always says.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnDivided

“Mercer doesn’t have to do anything alien to him. He suffers but at least he isn’t required to violate his own identity.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“If it happens, God lets it happen, and when we say 'I don't understand,' God replies, 'I don't care.”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile