“But don’t you believe in anything?” The man shrugged and picked up his cat. “I don’t understand what you mean,” he said. “You don’t understand that what you decide in this shack of yours affects the lives and fates of millions of people? This is all monstrously wrong!” “I don’t know. I’ve never met all these people you speak of. And neither, I suspect, have you. They only exist in words we hear. It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their eyes and ears.”
