I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.

I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.

If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

All friendships are negotiations of power.

Can't get away from your own self.

You don't have to protect these people, Cassel." I am these people.