“Everyone thinks that everyone else has it figured out - no one does! We have created a society that's too complex for us.”

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

“They think they're better than everyone else."
"No," said Jace. "I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence."
Kyle looked at Simon. "Does he always talk like this?"
"Yes.”

“Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.”

“Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks.”

“Hassan returned the smile. Except his didn’t look forced. And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too”

“Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else.”

“All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they.”

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

“That’s how a police state works - everyone thinks everyone else is the police.”