“Of course it was always the people who called themselves enlightened who stole the most. Who picked up the slang the earliest. To show – what? That they were not like the others? That they knew what was worth stealing? They were the guiltiest too. But guilt was not worth anything.”

“Of course it was always the people who called themselves enlightened who stole the most. Who picked up the slang the earliest. To show – what? That they were not like the others? That they knew what was worth stealing? They were the guiltiest too. But guilt was not worth anything.”

— Patricia Lockwood