There was no pleasure like double-crossing a crook. - Kim Stanley Robinson

Tourism is an ugly business, it’s not fit work for human beings. It’s hosting parasites.

We all have seven secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes; our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one ever knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.

Politics in its most common form: complaint. No one wanted to do it but everyone was happy to complain about it.