It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it. - Cormac McCarthy

When Wittgenstein convinced Russell that all math is a tautology, Russell gave up on math.

You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.

You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some things, don't you?'
'Yeah. You remember the things you want to forget and forget the things you want to remember.