He thinks of himself as a philosopher, a weatherman, an astronomer, a speaker of languages, an artist. We live on a little ball, he says, a little blue ball in a minor solar system in a small galaxy in an infinite universe. Nothing I do, or you do, or anyone does means a goddamn thing. We should be happy and spend our days in pursuit of pleasure and pain and every form of lust and desire that exists.

— Katerina by James Frey (Page 2 - 3)