It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.