You always kill the one you love.

You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.

For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.

Find value in what we've been taught is worthless.