How true it is when they say there is nothing which makes a man more furious than the discovery that he has deceived himself! - Michael Moorcock

Is that what you are? An android?"
"You could find out if you made love to me."
Faustaff smiled and shook his head. "Sweetheart, you're just not my type."
"I thought any young woman was your type, doctor."
"So did I till I met you.

Listening to the conversation, his faith in the stupidity of human nature was fully restored.

But we are all victims, Captain Bastable, just as in other ways we are all aggressors. At root we are victims to the comforting lies we tell ourselves, of our willingness to shift moral responsibility onto leaders, organized religion—onto a deity or a race, if all else fails. Onto God, onto politicians, onto creatures from other planets. It is always the same impulse, to refuse responsibility. If we do not take responsibility for our own actions, ultimately we perish.