Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.
Walter KirnThe lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.
Walter KirnHe knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.
Walter Kirn