Let's hope the first comes first.

American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success.

The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.