“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.”
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“Well guess what motherfucker, you just got caught.”
“It's not about hacking computers anymore, it's about hacking human souls.”
“If only I were as good at life as I am at the internet.”
“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”