There's nothing like a nostalgia trip to make you feel alien from both your past and your present. You also see what's static in you, what you hadn't… - Steve Toltz

Career criminals and philosophers have a surprising amount in common - they are both at odds with society, they both live uncompromisingly by their own rules, and they both make really lousy parent figures.

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your own potential.

People always say, "It's good to be a part of a something bigger than yourself," but you already are. You're part of a huge thing. The whole of humanity. That's enormous. But you can't see it, so you pick, what? An organization? A culture? A religion? That's not bigger than you. It's much, much smaller!