“We are merely the stars’ tennis-balls, Ned, struck and bandied which way please them.” “You don’t believe that. You believe in will. You told me so.” “Like anyone with a sliver of honesty in them, I believe what I find I believe when I wake up each morning. Sometimes I can only think we are determined by the writing in our genes; sometimes it seems to me that we are made or unmade by our upbringings. On better days, it is true that I hope with some conviction that we and we alone make ourselves everything that we are.” “Nature, Nurture, or Nietzsche, in fact.”
