“In case you haven’t noticed, my interactions with my fellow man have led me to living alone in the desert with a mule and a cactus.” “Don’t you feel any responsibility to those people who died?” “You are too young to understand, but we the living have no responsibilities to the dead, our accountabilities to them have passed and they no longer have any more use for us than we have for them—our duties are to the living, and that should occupy us enough.”
